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A. R. Ammons on Poetry

1926–2001 United States

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Trying to make a living from poetry is like putting chains on butterfly wings.

Paris Review interview (1996)

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.

Paris Review interview (1996)

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