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John Ashbery quotes

American Poet July 28, 1927

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John Ashbery quote: "There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I..."
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. John Ashbery
John Ashbery quote: "The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be."
The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be. John Ashbery
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
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
Tomorrow would alter the sense of what had already been learned, That the learning process is extended in this way, so that from this standpoint None of us ever graduates from college, For time is an emulsion, and probably thinking not to grow up Is the brightest kind of maturity for us, right now at any rate. John Ashbery
John Ashbery quote: "In the increasingly convincing darkness. The words become..."
In the increasingly convincing darkness. The words become palpable, like a fruit. That is too beautiful to eat. John Ashbery
The term ignorant is indeed perhaps an overstatement, implying as it does that something is known somewhere, whereas in reality we are not even sure of this: we in fact cannot aver with any degree of certainty that we are ignorant. Yet this is not so bad; we have at any rate kept our open-mindedness -- that, at least, we may be sure that we have -- and are not in any danger, or so it seems, of freezing into the pious attitudes of those true spiritual bigots whose faces are turned toward... John Ashbery
John Ashbery quote: "until only infinity remained of beauty"
until only infinity remained of beauty John Ashbery
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
This was our ambition: to be small and clear and free. Alas, the summer’s energy wanes quickly, A moment and it is gone. And no longer May we make the necessary arrangements, simple as they are. Our star was brighter perhaps when it had water in it. 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
How many people came and stayed a certain time, Uttered light or dark speech that became part of you. Like light behind windblown fog and sand. Filtered and influenced by it, until no part. Remains that is surely you. John Ashbery
So one can lose a good ideaby not writing it down, yet by losing it one can have it: it nourishes other asidesit knows nothing of, would not recognize itself in, yet when the negotiationsare terminated, speaks in the acts of that progenitor, and doesrecognize itself, is grateful for not having done so earlier. John Ashbery
The genius of Cornell is that he sees and enables us to see with the eyes of childhood, before our vision got clouded by experience, when objects like a rubber ball or a pocket mirror seemed charged with meaning, and a marble rolling across a wooden floor could be as portentous as a passing comet. John Ashbery
John Ashbery quote: "The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the..."
The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes John Ashbery

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