6 Quotes by A.R. Ammons

Things go away to return, brightened for the passage

I’ve pressed sofar away frommy desire thatif you askedme what Iwant I would,accepting the harmoniouscompletion of thedrift, say annihilation,probably.

To be saved is here, local and mortal

The oppressed grows weightless: doze/n th/rough c/and/or man/aged leg/ions stud/ents

You came one day andas usual in such matterssignificance filled everything -your eyes, the things youknew, the way you turned,leaned, stood, or sat,this way or that: whenyou left, the area around here rosea tilted tide, and everything thatoffers desolation drained away.

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