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I revise short poems sometimes for years, whereas, since there is no getting lost in the long poem, I engage whatever comes up in the moment and link it with its moment.

— A. R. Ammons Paris Review interview (1996)

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MIRRORMENT
Birds are flowers flying
and flowers perched birds.

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Wind rocks
the porch chair
somebody home.

The Really Short Poems of A. R. Ammons (1991)

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

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Artist should be left alone to paint or not to paint, write or not to write.

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I write for love, respect, money, fame, honor, redemption. I write to be included in a world I feel rejected by.

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