5 Quotes & Sayings By Ar Ammons

A.R. Ammons is the author of nine books of poetry, nine novels, two children's books, and two anthologies. She has received fellowships from several prestigious literary and arts organizations and is a recipient of the Ohioana Library Association's Award for Poetry, The Fordham University Poetry Prize, and the Poetry Society of Lancaster's Award for Poetry. Her writings have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and The Best American Poetry 1998; her poetry was included in The Best American Poetry 1997 Read more

Her first novel, The Road to Home, was published by Persea Books in 1999. She lives in Delaware with her husband and son.

Things go away to return, brightened for the passage
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Things go away to return, brightened for the passage A.R. Ammons
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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. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization. . A.R. Ammons
To be saved is here, local and mortal
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To be saved is here, local and mortal A.R. Ammons
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I’ve pressed sofar away frommy desire thatif you askedme what Iwant I would, accepting the harmoniouscompletion of thedrift, say annihilation, probably. A.R. Ammons