A. R. Ammons Quotes

Everyone is possessed with an irresistible desire to know his relationship to the Infinite.

There is one unity, unified wholeness, total natural law, in the transcendental unified consciousness.

Music has always enhanced our experience of life on earth by seeming to give us access to something larger than ourselves - the strings of the universe.

the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent.

Religious leaders and men of science have the same ideals; they want to understand and explain the universe of which they are part; they both earnestly desire to solve, if a solution be ever possible, that great riddle: Why are we here?

For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things. The Mystical in Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical in Nature this is what I am looking for. It is absolutely necessary for me to find it somewhere.

Nature's intent is neither food, nor drink, nor clothing, nor comfort, nor anything else in which God is left out. Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly nature seeks, hunts, tries to ferret out the track on which God may be found.

Spirituality now wanders from sex to drugs to art to revolution to violence--whatever seems to promise deliverance from the quotidian.

The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest is on another level altogether, Spiritual wine has a subtler taste. The intellect and the senses investigate cause and effect. The spiritual seeker surrenders to the wonder.

Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.

How far have I to go to find you in whom I have already arrived.

The human comedy does not attract me enough. I am not entirely of this world. I am from elsewhere, and it is worth finding this elsewhere beyond the walls...but where is it?

We're just a weed in the universe

She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Act as if the future of the universe depends on what you do, while laughing at yourself for thinking that your actions make any difference.

God is the great comprehensive a priori integrity of Universe within which human beings find themselves to be operating.

Look up at the stars and you're gone.

The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.

There is no mundane dimension really, if you have the eyes to see it, it is all transcendental.

Over time, I started becoming more and more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort of conventional Christianity.

I always try to be open to whatever the universe wants from me.

We live under the sun, but our destiny is beyond its rising and setting.

Where is God? Where can I find him?" we ask. We don't realize that's like a fish swimming frantically through the ocean in search OF the ocean