It's not a love of poetry readings that attracts those who do come to them but theater.
A. R. AmmonsEach poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
A. R. AmmonsIf a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster
A. R. AmmonsThe walk liberating, I was released from forms, from the perpendiculars, straight lines, blocks, boxes, binds of thought into the hues, shadings, rises, flowing bends and blends of sight.
A. R. Ammons