A. R. Ammons Quotes

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is.

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.

I have no time for specialized concerns, working themes or variations that lead to mastery... I like the indefinite, the boundless; I like continual uncertainty. Other qualities may be more conducive to achievement, publicity, success; but they are all outworn - as outworn as ideologies, opinions, concepts and names for things.

It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.

I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything.

… a world without certainty can be richer, in all senses of the word, than a world with false convictions.

I don't really have a three-year plan or a five-year plan. I don't know what's next, and that's what I find quite exciting. I dig it.

I've learned it's important to never lock yourself down into one thing - you need to remain fluid and open to all possibilities.

I am always living in the now, so I like what fate brings to you. That's always fun for me. To have a process and someone be like, 'How about this?' And you just grab onto that and see where it takes you.

I'll be happy to go anywhere that will take me, honestly.

Young people - and skaters - are very, very open-minded.

I prefer my hesitations, my false paths, my stammering, to a preconceived idea.

I am unable to rule anything out.

Embrace what you don't know

Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

I think if you're open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you're closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading.

Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.

If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives.

I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door.

I always want my options to be open.

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.

If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.