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John Ashbery Quotes

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army Picture Quote #1

Silly girls your heads full of boys Picture Quote #1

The sun fades like the spreading Of a peacock’s tail, as though twilight Might be read as a warning to those desperate For easy solutions Picture Quote #1

Death is a new office building filled with modern furniture, A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us Picture Quote #1

Extreme patience and persistence are required, Yet everybody succeeds at this before being handed The surprise box lunch of the rest of his life Picture Quote #1

Then let yourself love all that you take delight in Accept yourself whole, accept the heritage That shaped you and is passed on from age to age Down to your entity. Remain mysterious; Rather than be pure, accept yourself as numerous Picture Quote #1

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Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night, Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes. But will he know where to find you, Recognize you when he sees you, Give you the thing he has for you? Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

What I like about music is its ability to be convincing, to carry an argument through successfully to the finish, though the terms of the argument remain unknown quantities Picture Quote #1

Not until it starts to stink does the inevitable happen Picture Quote #1

The winter does what it can for its children Picture Quote #1

Each servant stamps the reader with a look Picture Quote #1

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I lost my ridiculous accent without acquiring another Picture Quote #1

The facts of history have been too well rehearsed Picture Quote #1

What is the past, what is it all for? A mental sandwich? Picture Quote #1

I feel that poetry is going on all the time inside, an underground stream Picture Quote #1

Where then shall hope and fear their objects find? Picture Quote #1

Will occur as time grows more open about it Picture Quote #1

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The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be Picture Quote #1

Until only infinity remained of beauty Picture Quote #1

I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free Picture Quote #1

Things can harden meaningfully in the moment of indecision Picture Quote #1

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places Picture Quote #1

I write with experiences in mind, but I don’t write about them, I write out of them Picture Quote #1

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Most reckless things are beautiful in some way, and recklessness is what makes experimental art beautiful, just as religions are beautiful because of the strong possibilities that they are founded on nothing Picture Quote #1

And so we turn the page over. To think of starting. This is all there is Picture Quote #1

I don’t want to read what is going to slide down easily; there has to be some crunch, a certain amount of resilience Picture Quote #1

Did I say that? One says so many things, and the problem is they all get written down Picture Quote #1

If you need a certain vitality you can only supply it yourself, or there comes a point, anyway, when no one’s actions but your own seem dramatically convincing and justifiable in the plot that the number of your days concocts Picture Quote #1

... the first step of the terrible journey toward feeling somebody should act, that ends in utter confusion and hopelessness, east of the sun and west of the moon Picture Quote #1

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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) Silly girls your heads full of boys (John Ashbery Quotes) The sun fades like the spreading Of a peacock’s tail, as though twilight Might be read as a warning to those desperate For easy solutions. (John Ashbery Quotes) Death is a new office building filled with modern furniture, A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us. (John Ashbery Quotes) Extreme patience and persistence are required, Yet everybody succeeds at this before being handed The surprise box lunch of the rest of his life. (John Ashbery Quotes) Then let yourself love all that you take delight in Accept yourself whole, accept the heritage That shaped you and is passed on from age to age Down to your entity. Remain mysterious; Rather than be pure, accept yourself as numerous (John Ashbery Quotes) Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night, Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes. But will he know where to find you, Recognize you when he sees you, Give you the thing he has for you? (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) What I like about music is its ability to be convincing, to carry an argument through successfully to the finish, though the terms of the argument remain unknown quantities (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) 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) The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be (John Ashbery Quotes) Until only infinity remained of beauty (John Ashbery Quotes) I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free (John Ashbery Quotes) Things can harden meaningfully in the moment of indecision (John Ashbery Quotes) I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places (John Ashbery Quotes) I write with experiences in mind, but I don’t write about them, I write out of them (John Ashbery Quotes) Most reckless things are beautiful in some way, and recklessness is what makes experimental art beautiful, just as religions are beautiful because of the strong possibilities that they are founded on nothing (John Ashbery Quotes) And so we turn the page over. To think of starting. This is all there is (John Ashbery Quotes) I don’t want to read what is going to slide down easily; there has to be some crunch, a certain amount of resilience (John Ashbery Quotes) Did I say that? One says so many things, and the problem is they all get written down (John Ashbery Quotes) If you need a certain vitality you can only supply it yourself, or there comes a point, anyway, when no one’s actions but your own seem dramatically convincing and justifiable in the plot that the number of your days concocts (John Ashbery Quotes) ... the first step of the terrible journey toward feeling somebody should act, that ends in utter confusion and hopelessness, east of the sun and west of the moon (John Ashbery Quotes)

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