Writer poet Nature Today Change 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
God If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included. - A. R. Ammons
Laws Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take. - A. R. Ammons
Poetry The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance. - 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
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