Trying to make a living from poetry is like putting chains … - Archie Randolph Ammons

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Trying to make a living from poetry is like putting chains on butterfly wings.

Archie Randolph Ammons

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Archie Randolph Ammons (18 February 1926 – 25 February 2001) was an American poet.

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Alternative Names: A.R. Ammons • A R Ammons • AR Ammons • Archibald Randolph Ammons

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Poetry is everlasting. It is not going away. But it has never occupied a sizeable part of the world's business, and it never will.

MIRRORMENT
Birds are flowers flying
and flowers perched birds.

SMALL SONG The reeds give way to the wind
and give the wind away

Trying to make a living from poetry is like putting chains on butterfly wings. - Archie Randolph Ammons

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