The Selected Poems Quotes

“The reeds give
way to the

wind and give
the wind away”
― A.R. Ammons, The Selected Poems

“It was May before my
attention came
to spring and

my word I said
to the southern slopes
I've

missed it, it
came and went before
I got right to see:

don't worry, said the mountain,
try the later northern slopes
or if

you can climb, climb
into spring: but
said the mountain

it's not that way
with all things, some
that go are gone”
― A.R. Ammons, The Selected Poems

“Like the hills under
dusk
you fall away
from the light:

you deepen: the green
light darkens
and you are nearly lost:

only so much light as
stars keep
manifests your face:

I feel the total night
in myself rave
for the light along your lips.”
― A.R. Ammons, The Selected Poems