Writer Years poet Nature American Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without. - A. R. Ammons
Disaster May Time 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. - A. R. Ammons
God If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included. - A. R. Ammons
Friends Change Today That's a wonderful change that's 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. - A. R. Ammons
Stars Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone. - A. R. Ammons
Poetry Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. - A. R. Ammons
And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. - Julien Benda
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove. - Dean Inge