A. R. Ammons Quotes
Poetry is everlasting. It is not going away. But it has never occupied a sizeable part of the world's business, and it never will.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.
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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.
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Life lives; and in the living flow, no questions are raised. The reason is that life is a living now! So, in order to live life whole-heartedly, the answer is life simply is.
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Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.
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Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.
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The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.
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Poetry is everlasting. It is not going away. But it has never occupied a sizeable part of the world's business, and it never will.
