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The ellipse is as aimless as ...

The ellipse is as aimless as that,
Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear
In our present. Its flexing is its account,
Return to the point of no return.

John Ashbery 98 quotes

Some certified nut Will try t...

Some certified nut Will try to tell you it's poetry, (It's extraordinary, it makes a great deal of sense) But watch out or he'll start with some New notion or other.

John Ashbery 98 quotes

What I like about music is it...

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 98 quotes

The term ignorant is indeed p...

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 eternity and who therefore can see nothing.

John Ashbery 98 quotes

And we may be led, then, upwa...

And we may be led, then, upward through more Powerful forms of poetry, past columns With peeling posters on them, to the country of indifference. Meanwhile if the swell diapasons, blooms Unhappily and too soon, the little people are nonetheless real.

John Ashbery 98 quotes

I always thought that writing...

I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.

John Ashbery 98 quotes

Not until it starts to stink ...

Not until it starts to stink does the inevitable happen.

John Ashbery 98 quotes

The promise of learning is a ...

The promise of learning is a delusion.... 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 98 quotes

I want a bedroom near the sky...

I want a bedroom near the sky, an astrologer's cave Where I can fashion eclogues that are chaste and grave.

John Ashbery 98 quotes

We are prisoners of the world...

We are prisoners of the world's demented sink. The soft enchantments of our years of innocence Are harvested by accredited experience Our fondest memories soon turn to poison And only oblivion remains in season.

John Ashbery 98 quotes

In the increasingly convincin...

In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat.

John Ashbery 98 quotes

The soul is not a soul,
Has ...

The soul is not a soul,
Has no secret, is small, and it fits
Its hollow perfectly: its room, our moment of attention.

John Ashbery 98 quotes

Reading is a pleasure, but to...

Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.

John Ashbery 98 quotes

Just when I thought there was...

Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea—

John Ashbery 98 quotes

There is the view that poetry...

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

John Ashbery 98 quotes

Somewhere someone is travelin...

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 98 quotes

Once you've lived in France, ...

Once you've lived in France, you don't want to live anywhere else, including France.

John Ashbery 98 quotes

I don't look on poetry as clo...

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 98 quotes

I think that in the process o...

I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan and that these accidents are really what we mean when we talk about poetry.

John Ashbery 98 quotes

I like poems you can tack all...

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

John Ashbery 98 quotes

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