A. R. Ammons
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"Archie Randolph Ammons" was an American poet who won the annual National Book Award for Poetry in 1973 and 1993.

He wrote about humanity's relationship to nature in alternately comic and solemn tones.

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Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

In nature there are few sharp lines.

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