I have a life that did not become, that turned aside and stopped, astonished - A. R. Ammons

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Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful-just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.

A. R. Ammons

I have a life that did not become, that turned aside and stopped, astonished

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Only silence perfects silence.

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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

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The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.

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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.

Afterward, Art, Leads, Mean, Realization, Self

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