"The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance."

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

A. R. Ammons

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“To think twice is quite enough.”
“I played guitar when I was a kid, a little bit. I can tool around with a guitar, but I'm certainly not a musician.”

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“But, as Bacon has well pointed out, truth is more likely to come out of error, if this is clear and definite, than out of confusion, and my experience teaches me that it is better to hold a well-understood and intelligible opinion, even if it should turn out to be wrong, than to be content with a muddle-headed mixture of conflicting views, sometimes miscalled impartiality, and often no better than no opinion at all.”
“The pint would call the quart a dualist, if you tried to pour the quart into him.”
“A day off after a show with no agenda in a foreign city is about the most fertile creative situation I can imagine. Just walking with nothing to do, killing time and hearing the sights and sounds of an unfamiliar place.”
“Perhaps the earth can teach us As when everything seems dead And later proves to be alive”
“I go to clubs and if I notice the DJs are playing the records faster, then I'll push the beats a little on the next record I make. A lot of people don't know how to watch out for things like that.”
“Without justice and love, peace will always be a great illusion.”

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