A. R. Ammons: And the emphasis on analysis and criticism is a temporary emphasis. Eventually, we’ll get back to the work of art. The imaginative construct is eventually where it is. That’s where the energy comes from, and we’ll get back there. It’s very complicated, but somehow or other we haven’t digested all that material and found new ways, a new stance of our own by which we can perceive, without loss of anything that we value, without being inhibited by what we know.