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A. R. Ammons Quotes

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Poetry Living Years Without Imagine

What can we put into the hands of people under oppressive regimes to help them? For me, a big part of it is information, knowledge - the ability to defeat propaganda by understanding it.

Knowledge People Me Help Hands

What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war.

Live War People Help Country Things

I believe that good television should be challenging and frustrating and maddening and thrilling. If you just want to see people who look like you and think like you and do what you would do in any given situation, you'd have to stop looking at TV and start looking in a mirror. But would that be as much fun?

Good Mirror Fun People Start Think

I wasn't really a performer by temperament.

Temperament Really Performer

For me, history is always personal. And it's how your personal history interacts with the history of your time. I'm very attracted to characters who were cursed, as the Chinese say, to live in interesting times.

Live History Time Me Interesting

I'm a keen traveller, and I'm a nerd with planes and airports.

Nerd Traveller Keen Planes

How is our society going to progress if 50 percent of the population is not allowed to contribute?

Progress Society Going Population

I learned mime back when I was in college, at Ball State University, Indiana. That woke up my body from the neck down and made me realize that acting and communication - portraying a story, event, or emotion - is a full-body experience.

Communication Experience College Me

While religious fundamentalism is treated as a serious social problem because it has the potential to lead to rare but devastating acts of terrorism against the public, with a variety of programmes and interventions to address it, everyday violence against women occurring in the name of fundamentalism has long been neglected.

Women Potential Name Problem Long

Somebody who's really comfortable with who she is and doesn't care what other people think. I like women who are really strong and were brought up to be comfortable with themselves and respect themselves.

Brian Austin Green

Women Respect People Strong Think

I feel that I've worked with a lot of interesting people, and I have no regrets. I'm just curious about what I might have done if I'd had people in my life then who did explain what the publicity game was.

Annabella Sciorra

Life Curious People Game My Life

We want everyone who comes through to feel more entrepreneurial and start companies, even if they fail.

Start Feel Want More Everyone Fail

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