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How different the reasoning is that men adopt when they are discussing the cases of men and those of women.

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A. R. Ammons

Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without

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Only silence perfects silence.

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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.

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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

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The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole.

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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization.

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