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
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A. R. Ammons : American Poet
Born: February 18, 1926
Died: February 25, 2001
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of …
I don’t act because I love doing it, I act because it’s my j…
We live between the act of awakening and the act of surrende…
I was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing …
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on k…
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. Robert Frost…
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of …
I don’t act because I love doing it, I act because it’s my j…
We live between the act of awakening and the act of surrende…
I was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing …
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on k…
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wi…
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. Robert Frost…
And your very flesh shall be a great poem. Walt Whitman…
The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry. But…
History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories o…
In a poem, the words happen; they just come. I let them. Oth…
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page….
A book about books is like a poem about poetry:Books are kno …
When I play a game, I want to play, not necessarily laugh. I…
The definition of success to me is not necessarily a price t…
Rivalries don’t necessarily mean races being close at major …
To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to …
I don’t think tragic situations are necessarily devoid of be…
Mind you, physical training doesn’t necessarily mean going t…
I don’t necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I …
