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The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.
— John Ashbery
As if I were only a flower after all and not the map of the country in which it grows.
— John Ashbery
Poetry is mostly hunches.
— John Ashbery
I could have made a casserole out of these things, but you always say you like to know what you're eating.
— John Ashbery
The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes
— John Ashbery
Ambiguity supposes eventual resolution of itself whereas certitude implies further ambiguity.
— John Ashbery
The gray glaze of the past attacks all know-how ...
— John Ashbery
The sun fades like the spreadingOf a peacock's tail, as though twilight
Might be read as a warning to those desperate
For easy solutions. — John Ashbery
Leaves around the door are penciled losses.
— John Ashbery
The soul establishes itself. But how far can it swim out through the eyes And still return safely to its nest?
— John Ashbery
Death is a new office building filled with modern furniture,A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us. — John Ashbery
This whole moment is the groinOf a borborygmic giant who even now
Is rolling over on us in his sleep. — John Ashbery
Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at all.
— John Ashbery
I lost my ridiculous accent without acquiring another
— John Ashbery
Once a happy old man One can never change the core of things, and light burns you the harder for it.
— John Ashbery
Life is beautiful. He who reads thatAs in the window of some distant, speeding train
Knows what he wants, and what will befall. — John Ashbery
Darkness fell like a wet sponge.
— John Ashbery
I'm heading for a clean-named placelike Wisconsin, and mad as a jack-o'-lantern, will get there
without help and nosy proclivities. — John Ashbery
Each servant stamps the reader with a look.
— John Ashbery
Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.
— 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
Where then shall hope and fear their objects find?
— John Ashbery
A yak is a prehistoric cabbage; of that, we can be sure.
— John Ashbery
