Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
A. R. AmmonsEven if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
A. R. AmmonsPoetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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