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A. R. Ammons, from a poem titled "Shot Glass," featured in The New Yorker
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— A.R. Ammons, "Play"
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"I devour the sunlight off
leaves."
----A. R. Ammons
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But the motion occurs only in the body of the walker or in the body of the words. It can't be extracted and contemplated. It is nonreproducible and nonlogical. It can't be translated into another body. There is only one way to know it and that is to enter into it. To summarize, a walk involves the whole person; it is not reproducible: its shape occurs, unfolds: it has a motion characteristic of the walker.
– A. R. Ammons, "A Poem is a Walk"
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A. R. Ammons
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happy october 🍂🍁
Burnout in the Overshoot, A. R. Ammons
#a. r. ammons#burnout in the overshoot#poetry#i took this from like a 1984 or 1985 contemporary poetry sampler
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infographic visualizing the poems of A.R. Ammons | class project from an English class over a decade ago
#poetry#A. R. Ammons#short poems#poems#infographic#creative writing#design#poet#writing#graphic design
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— Stills, A. R. Ammonds (via poetryisnotaluxury)
[text ID: STILLS
I have nowhere / to go and
nowhere to go
when I get / back from there]
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A poem by A. R. Ammons:
The spring
in
her step
has
turned to
PUMPKIN SPICE LET'S GO PUMPKIN SPICE TIME THAT'S RIGHT IT'S SEPTEMBER LOVE DA PUMPKIN SPICE GET A HOME RUN
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"Anxiety"
by A. R. Ammons from The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons The sparrowhawk flies hard to stand in the air: something about direction lets us loose into ease and slow grace.
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still, a. r. ammons
#hiyutekivigil#still#a r ammons#poem#poetry#lit#literature#words#academia#academia aesthetic#dead poets society#dead poets society aesthetic
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"Sisyphus
knew each upward strain
& groan
soaked into the hard
potential of the stone."
----A. R. Ammons
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This suggests to me that description, logic, and hypothesis, reaching toward higher and higher levels of generality, come finally to an antithesis logic can't bridge. But poetry, the imagination, can create a vehicle, at once concrete and universal, one and many, similar and diverse, that is capable of bridging the duality and of bringing us the experience of a "real" world that is also a reconciled, a unified, real world. And this vehicle is the only expression of language, of words, that I know of that contradicts my quotation from Lao-tse, because a poem becomes, like reality, an existence about which nothing that can be said in words is worth saying.
– A. R. Ammons, "A Poem is a Walk"
#the inexpressible is inexpressibly contained in the expressed#negative capability#language#on poetry#a. r. ammons
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"substantial planes" by a. r. ammons
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From The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons. (W.W. Norton, 1992).
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