Famous Quotes

"Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same."

A. R. Ammons on Health

More quotes about Health

• "To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear."

  Buddha on Health

• "The wish for healing has always been half of health."

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca on Health

• "A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier."

  Tom Stoppard on Health

• "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."

  John Muir on Health

• "'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes."

  Henry David Thoreau on Health

More quotes by A. R. Ammons

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

• "Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience."

• "If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'"

• "Probably all the attention to poetry results in some value, though the attention is more often directed to lesser than to greater values."

• "I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry."