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John Ashbery Quotes
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There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army (John Ashbery Quotes)
The evening light was like honey in the trees When you left me and walked to the end of the street Where the sunset abruptly ended. The wedding-cake drawbridge lowered itself To the fragile forget-me-not flower. You climbed aboard. Burnt horizons suddenly paved with golden stones, Dreams I had, including suicide, Puff out the hot-air balloon now. It is bursting, it is about to burst (John Ashbery Quotes)
Not until it starts to stink does the inevitable happen (John Ashbery Quotes)
The winter does what it can for its children (John Ashbery Quotes)
Each servant stamps the reader with a look (John Ashbery Quotes)
I lost my ridiculous accent without acquiring another (John Ashbery Quotes)
Silly girls your heads full of boys (John Ashbery Quotes)
The facts of history have been too well rehearsed (John Ashbery Quotes)
What is the past, what is it all for? A mental sandwich? (John Ashbery Quotes)
I feel that poetry is going on all the time inside, an underground stream (John Ashbery Quotes)
Where then shall hope and fear their objects find? (John Ashbery Quotes)
Will occur as time grows more open about it (John Ashbery Quotes)
Things can harden meaningfully in the moment of indecision (John Ashbery Quotes)
I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free (John Ashbery Quotes)
Until only infinity remained of beauty (John Ashbery Quotes)
The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be (John Ashbery Quotes)
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places (John Ashbery Quotes)
And so we turn the page over. To think of starting. This is all there is (John Ashbery Quotes)