John Ashbery Quotes
You bad birds,But God shall not punish you, youShall be with us in heaven, though lessConscious of y...
Show MoreThe first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through …
How many people came and stayed a certain time,Uttered light or dark speech that became part of youL...
Show MoreI'm heading for a clean-named placelike Wisconsin, and mad as a jack-o'-lantern, will get therewitho...
Show MoreI don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasi...
Show MoreWalter Pater said that all the arts aspire to the condition of music, but I’ve always felt that musi...
Show MoreThe poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.
A little bunny or some kind of ferret was probablythere too, and bore witness as only rodents can.
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation...
Show MoreSo one can lose a good ideaby not writing it down, yet by losing it one can have it: it nourishes ot...
Show MoreIt is the lumps and trialsThat tell us whether we shall be knownAnd whether our fate can be exemplar...
Show MoreI tried each thing, only some were immortal and free.
Things can harden meaningfully in the moment of indecision
The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than ...
Show MoreIts a bit mad. Too bad, I mean, that getting to know each just for a fleeting second Must be replace...
Show MoreThe music brought us what it seemed / We had long desired, but in a form / so rarefied there was no ...
Show Moreuntil only infinity remained of beauty
