A. R. Ammons

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#become #billion #careless #four #galaxy

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#deduction #generated #judgement #laws #may

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#becomes #closely #looked #wonderful

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#blank #definition #other #out #prisons

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#completely #each #extensions #generated #generates

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#direct #direct experience #discursive #everything #instead

For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#concrete #large #limited #need #often

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#articles #concerning #flood #grateful #i

I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#between #external #first #first of all #i

Only silence perfects silence. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#perfects #silence