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John Ashbery quotes

American Poet July 28, 1927

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John Ashbery quote: "as if I were only a flower after all and not the map of the..."
...as if I were only a flower after all and not the map of the country in which it grows. John Ashbery
The facts of history have been too well rehearsed (I'm speaking needless to say not of written history but the oral kind that goes on in you without your having to do anything about it). . . John Ashbery
John Ashbery quote: "A little bunny or some kind of ferret was probablythere too,..."
A little bunny or some kind of ferret was probablythere too, and bore witness as only rodents can. John Ashbery
John Ashbery quote: "The music brought us what it seemed / We had long desired, but..."
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
We live our lives, made up of a great quantity of / isolated instants / So as to be lost at the heart of a multitude of things. John Ashbery
John Ashbery quote: "Things can harden meaningfully in the moment of indecision"
Things can harden meaningfully in the moment of indecision John Ashbery
But it is the same thing we are all seeing, Our world. Go after it, Go get it boy, says the man holding the stick. Eat, says the hunger, and we plunge blindly in again, Into the chamber behind the thought John Ashbery
John Ashbery quote: "I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about..."
I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them. John Ashbery
John Ashbery quote: "Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another..."
Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great ide? John Ashbery
Its a bit mad. Too bad, I mean, that getting to know each just for a fleeting second Must be replaced by unperfect knowledge of the featureless whole. Like some pocket history of the world, so general. As to constitute a sob or wail John Ashbery
John Ashbery quote: "Leaves around the door are penciled losses."
Leaves around the door are penciled losses. John Ashbery
John Ashbery quote: "Once you've lived in France, you don't want to live anywhere..."
Once you've lived in France, you don't want to live anywhere else, including France. 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
John Ashbery quote: "I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free."
I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free. John Ashbery
John Ashbery quote: "The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show..."
The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through? John Ashbery

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