Writer poet Nature American Poetry Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers. - A. R. Ammons
Poetry Years 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
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
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
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
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