A collection of top quotes and sayings by A. R. Ammons on subjects such as silence, experience, opinion, wisdom, life, mind, art, travel, world etc.
37 Top Quotes By A. R. Ammons
Archie Randolph Ammons was an American poet, novelist and essayist. he was awarded the reputed National Book of Award for poetry. He specialized in writing about subjects pertaining to relationship between nature and humanity while attributing humor and awe-inspiring tones. His poetry preached transcendental mixture of religious and philosophical matters garnished with the complex relationship of nature and the soul. He went on to receive accolades such as National Book Critics Circle Award and Bollingen Prize for Poetry for his work in A Coast of Trees and Sphere: The Form of a Motion respectively. He received the most restigious 'National Book of Award' for poetry twice for his works Collected Poems and Garbage. His prominent prose writing works include Set in Motion: Essays, Interviews, and Dialogues (1996) and An Image for Longing: Selected Letters and Journals of A.R. Ammon. While many critics applaud the work of Ammons, some accuse of his work in familiar lines with Emerson, Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Let us go through some of the famous quotes from this legendary American poet, highlighting his thoughts and sayings