"Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterwards have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of over-simplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a non-verbal source."
A. R. Ammons, excerpted from "A Poem is a Walk"
A. R. Ammons, excerpted from "A Poem is a Walk"