Writer poet Nature American Poetry Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience. - 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
Stars Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone. - A. R. Ammons
Isolation World There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world. - 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
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
God If the greatest god is the stillness all the motions add up to, then we must ineluctably be included. - 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