Famous quotes containing the words archie randolph ammons, randolph ammons, archie randolph, randolph and/or ammons:
“The wonderful workings of the world: wonderful,
wonderful: I’m surprised half the time:”
—Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)
“I have a life that did not become,
that turned aside and stopped,
astonished:”
—Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)
“stranger,
hoist your burdens, get on down the road”
—Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)
“to fasten into order enlarging grasps of disorder, widening
scope, but enjoying the freedom that
Scope eludes my grasp, that there is no finality of vision,
that I have perceived nothing completely,
that tomorrow a new walk is a new walk.”
—Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)
“the walk liberating, I was released from forms,
from the perpendiculars,
straight lines, blocks, boxes, binds
of thought
into the hues, shadings, rises, flowing bends and blends
of sight:”
—Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)