“The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes”
“The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes”
John Ashbery
“The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through …”
John Ashbery“There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.”
John Ashbery“I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.”
John Ashbery“The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.”
John Ashbery“How many people came and stayed a certain time,Uttered light or dark speech that became part of youLike light behind windblown fog and sandFiltered and influenced by it, until no partRemains that is surely you.”
John Ashbery“Walter Pater said that all the arts aspire to the condition of music, but I’ve always felt that music aspires to the condition of words.”
John Ashbery“A little bunny or some kind of ferret was probablythere too, and bore witness as only rodents can.”
John Ashbery“I'm heading for a clean-named placelike Wisconsin, and mad as a jack-o'-lantern, will get therewithout help and nosy proclivities.”
John Ashbery“The music brought us what it seemed / We had long desired, but in a form / so rarefied there was no emptiness of sensation”
John Ashbery, Some Trees“until only infinity remained of beauty”
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