A. R. Ammons Quotes

They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop.

Comeback is a good word, man.

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.

For me, 'Resurrected' is just like I'm saying, 'I'm still here; I'm still having fun, and I'm still going.'

From every ruin, life springs up again and everything that dies is born again.

The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life.

Like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.

As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just so my wilted spirits rose again and such a heat of zeal surged through my veins that I was born anew.

Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!

Spring is a true reconstructionist.

Only in politics do resurrections occur.

We have to breathe new life into Europe.

Renaissance always comes out of depression.

It is good to make my comeback in Jamaica after not playing for so long.

This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.

Germany has been born anew.

It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

Nothing old is ever reborn, but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been [born], will always reappear in a new form.

The world...is full of resurrections... Every night that folds us up in darkness is a death; and those of you that have been out early, and have seen the first of the dawn, will know it - the day rises out of the night like a being that has burst its tomb and escaped into life.

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

I stepped out of my grave and into my life again.

Let us help the phoenix to rise from the ashes; let us help lay the foundation for a new renaissance; let us help to accelerate the spiritual awakening until it lifts us into the golden age which would come.

So coming back from a journey, or after an illness, before habits had spun themselves across the surface, one felt that same unreality, which was so startling; felt something emerge. Life was most vivid then.

We definitely need to get the excitement back.

When I joined in 1990, as they say in the sport of sailing, Puma was in the doldrums. It was a difficult time, and Puma had gone to sleep.