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

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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

• A. R. Ammons:

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

• A. R. Ammons:

  Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our ra

• A. R. Ammons:

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

• A. R. Ammons:

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

• A. R. Ammons:

  I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The

• A. R. Ammons:

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

• A. R. Ammons:

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

• A. R. Ammons:

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

• A. R. Rahman:

  I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture