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A. R. Ammons Quotes

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

A. R. Ammons

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: February 18, 1926 - February 25, 2001

Topics

Music Words Poetry Question Ask

I've spent time in the coastal Carolinas and have seen what small business development has done to maintain the wetlands and reestablish the fisheries and secure jobs for the people that make their living off the water.

Andrew Zimmern

Business Time Water People Small

In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to change it, things like that don't change in a week or a fortnight - was the new educational system.

John Hume

Change Time Opinion Week Situation

Music became less understandable in the wake of the new MTV era. You weren't supposed to be anything other than a pop star, to not go deeper than that. It was really strange. It was suffocating, image-wise. What you could talk about in a song changed; if you were misunderstood, you were really misunderstood - taken literally.

Ann Wilson

Music Song You Go New Strange

There is no such thing as a crazy dog person in New York. Are there people who are completely insane about their dogs? Hordes. But cat people may as well have whiskers and tails themselves. That's because their pets' lack of social need taps straight into our worst fears as the human inhabitants of New York.

Sloane Crosley

Dog New York People Crazy Person

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

Sigmund Freud

Opposition Made Occasion Misused

I'm a very active person. I'm a big tomboy, throwing around a football, hiking... all that stuff I love.

Tracy Spiridakos

Love Football Person Active Big

I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull.

Trenton Lee Stewart

Find Vulnerability Who Dull Lack

The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise - if you'd be good enough to lie down under the wheels of the juggernaut - that sentimental and self-aggrandising rationalisation for brute force and cowardice I felt from adolescence was wrong.

Tom Stoppard

Good Leader Future Lie Generation

I think Uma Thurman is one of God's creatures, one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen.

Joshua Jackson

Women God Beautiful Think Seen Most

I had a really great performance with Steven Tyler in the movie 'Be Cool.' I performed 'Cryin',' so we recorded the song beforehand. But I didn't get to meet him until I hit the stage with him, and we had a live performance with 30,000 people in the audience, and that was for the movie.

Christina Milian

Live Great People Cool Song Meet

When I ran for Congress I promised to help make health care affordable again.

Bobby Jindal

Health Care Help Congress Again Ran

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves.

Archibald MacLeish

Great Liberty Belief Human Greater