Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

Quote by A. R. Ammons

The colon is an Ammons "signature"; he uses it "as an all-purpose punctuation mark. Corsons Inlet. Lehman has written that Ammons "bears out T.

He wrote about humanity's relationship to nature in alternately comic and solemn tones.