Writer poet Nature American Poetry Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone. - A. R. Ammons
Change I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change. - 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
Isolation World There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world. - A. R. Ammons
Thoughts Time 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. - A. R. Ammons
Poetry Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values. - 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