A. R. Ammons Quotes

There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

~ A. R. Ammons

In nature there are few sharp lines.

~ A. R. Ammons

Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

~ A. R. Ammons

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

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

~ A. R. Ammons