A. R. Ammons

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

I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they ...

I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that ...

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is ...

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank o ...

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned a ...

If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance tha ...

Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route ca ...

A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principle ...

You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't kee ...

Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while t ...

Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly ...

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imag ...