“Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred bil...” — A. R. Ammons Quote

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

If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.

I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they can be the agents of gradual and successful change.

I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.

This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner.

I always say that MTV cribs is what brought straight men into the fashion world. Once they sort of saw sports guys and music guys had, like, a billion sneakers, they realized, 'Oh, you mean I can have more than one?'

In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.

I never knew the word 'billion' when I was a kid.

Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo.