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A.R. Ammons

Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

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A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.

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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.

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Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values.

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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.

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I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.

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

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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.

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For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.

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