Writer God poet Nature American If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included. - A. R. Ammons
First I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal. - 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
Purpose Past Man I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning. - 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