61 Quotes by A. R. Ammons

Though I have looked everywhere / I can find nothing lowly / in the universe.

I have a life that did not become, that turned aside and stopped, astonished

The wonderful workings of the world: wonderful, wonderful: I'm surprised half the time

It's not a love of poetry readings that attracts those who do come to them but theater.

I have reached no conclusions, have erected no boundaries, shutting out and shutting in, separating inside from outside: I have drawn no lines

Thats a wonderful change thats taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.

Where but in the very asshole of comedown is redemption: as where but brought low, where but in the grief of failure, loss, error do we discern the savage afflictions that turn us around: where but in the arrangements love crawls us through

To be saved is here, local and mortal

Things go away to return, brightened for the passage