A.R.Ammons Quotes and its meanings

What does A.R.Ammons write about?

A.R.Ammons has written on many topics but he is most famous for his work about alone, experience, health & poetry. People always share Alone quotes, Experience quotes, health & poetry from his literary works.

What are the top most famous quotes by A.R.Ammons?

Here are the top most famous quotes by A.R.Ammons.

• Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
• Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
• 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.
• If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'
• Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.
• I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.