61 Quotes by A. R. Ammons

In nature there are few sharp lines.

If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.

Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can’t imagine ourselves living without.

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.

To be saved is here, local and mortal.

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.