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The evening light was like ho...

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 98 quotes

I often wonder if I am suffer...

I often wonder if I am suffering from some mental dysfunction because of how weird and baffling my poetry seems to so many people and sometimes to me too.

John Ashbery 98 quotes

The summer demands and takes ...

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

John Ashbery 98 quotes

The facts of history have bee...

The facts of history have been too well rehearsed.

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One listens to a piece of gre...

One listens to a piece of great music, say, and feels deeply moved by it, and wants to put this feeling into words, but it can't be put into words. That's what - the music has already supplied the meaning, and words will just be superfluous after that. But it's that kind of verbal meaning that can't be verbalized that I try to get at in poetry.

John Ashbery 98 quotes

Alone with our madness and fa...

Alone with our madness and favorite flower We see that there really is nothing left to write about. Or rather, it is necessary to write about the same old things In the same way, repeating the same things over and over For love to continue and be gradually different.

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Expecting rain, the profile o...

Expecting rain, the profile of a day Wears its soul like a hat.

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The sun fades like the spread...

The sun fades like the spreading
Of a peacock's tail, as though twilight
Might be read as a warning to those desperate
For easy solutions.

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Then let yourself love all th...

Then let yourself love all that you take delight in
Accept yourself whole, accept the heritage
That shaped you and is passed on from age to age
Down to your entity. Remain mysterious;
Rather than be pure, accept yourself as numerous.

John Ashbery 98 quotes

My feeling is that most polit...

My feeling is that most political poetry is preaching to the choir, and that the people who are going to make the political changes in our lives are not the people who read poetry, unfortunately. Poetry not specifically aimed at political revolution, though, is beneficial in moving people toward that kind of action, as well as other kinds of action. A good poem makes me want to be active on as many fronts as possible.

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I am often asked why I write,...

I am often asked why I write, and I don't know really--I just want to.

John Ashbery 98 quotes

How many people came and stay...

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 98 quotes

I listen to music a great dea...

I listen to music a great deal. In a way, it's trying to express things that can't be expressed in words. That's something that interests me, too. Even though I use words to express myself, I am trying to, it seems to me, get beyond that.

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I tried each thing, only some ...

I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free.

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until only infinity remained o...

until only infinity remained of beauty

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Much that is beautiful must be...

Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.

John Ashbery 98 quotes

In the evening
Everythin...

In the evening
Everything has a schedule, if you can find out what it is.

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 wasn...

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

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Not until it starts to stink d...

Not until it starts to stink does the inevitable happen.

John Ashbery 98 quotes

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