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

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Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

A. R. Ammons

#Vision Quotes #Definitions Quotes #Way Quotes

“The sea will grant each man new hope, and sleep will bring dreams of home.”
“There are only a few places that I go where people recognize me anyway. I have to be at the right place, in the right city. It's not really that much of an issue.”

Source : "Davey Havok of AFI". Interview with Aidin Vaziri, www.sfgate.com. December 6, 2009.
“Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.”
“Writing 'We Are Never Getting Back Together' was one of the most hilarious experiences I have ever had in the studio because it just happened so naturally.”
“Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness.”
“Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.”
“I gave everything in my career so I have no regrets at all.”
“I've come to realize that real growth of character takes place in the valleys of life.”

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