I can’t tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can’t tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
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| Name: A. R. Ammons Profession: Poet Nationality: American Birthday: February 18, 1926 |
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Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Edgar Allan Poe Walt Whitman Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Emily Dickinson e. e. cummings
