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A. R. Ammons Quotes

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Seeing Become Structure Out Blank

I never got in this business, in cinema, to make horror movies. They arrived on my doorstep and I got typecast. Which was fine, I enjoy it, but I got into this business to make westerns. And the kind of westerns I used to see, they died. So that didn't work out.

Work Business Enjoy Cinema Movies

The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight.

Hope Me Kind Will Insight First

In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

Day Party Three True Order Oneself

Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

Soren Kierkegaard

Good Evil True Being Only Far

I spent eighteen months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University, waiting unhappily for an opportunity to work in a laboratory and wondering if I should continue in physics.

Work Opportunity Waiting Physics

I create homes that feel like a home - it could be a palace or a mansion - but each one has a comfortable feeling.

Home Feel Feeling Create Comfortable

What the people say on TV means nothing to me, and it means nothing to anybody that's actually playing football. It's for the fans to watch and enjoy.

Football People Me Enjoy Nothing

Herb Wong was an incredible man. We met when I was performing with Clark Terry at the Wichita Jazz Festival around 1974.

Man Jazz Herb Incredible Performing

Transactive memory works best when you have a sense of how your partners' minds work - where they're strong, where they're weak, where their biases lie. I can judge that for people close to me. But it's harder with digital tools, particularly search engines.

Work Best Lie Memory People Me

I eventually grew into a pre-teen Marilyn Munster, that being the only option I could find that allowed for a) blonde hair, b) a fondness for frilly pink things and wearing ribbons in your hair, and c) hanging out with monsters.

Hair Pink Blonde Find Out Monsters

You can't assume anything in politics. That's why every Saturday I walk around my district. I talk to the longshoremen in Charlestown. I listen to the people in East Boston and their concern on the airport noise. I walk down to the Star Market in Porter Square, and people tell me about meat prices.

Thomas P. O'Neill

Walk Politics People Me Saturday

I'd learned how much happiness money can bring you. Very little.

Happiness Money You Little Bring

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