Archie Randolph 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 reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning."
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"In nature there are few sharp lines."
"Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful."
"Only silence perfects silence."
"I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change."
"There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world."