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Author - John Ashbery
Quotes by : John Ashbery
music
Walter Pater said that all the arts aspire to the condition of music, but I’ve always felt that music....
Poem
The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.
infinity
until only infinity remained of beauty
summer
The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it....
memory
So one can lose a good ideaby not writing it down, yet by losing it one can have it: it nourishes other....
People
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation....
knowledge
Its a bit mad. Too bad, I mean, that getting to know each just for a fleeting second Must be replaced....
wisconsin
I'm heading for a clean-named placelike Wisconsin, and mad as a jack-o'-lantern, will get therewithout....
indecision
Things can harden meaningfully in the moment of indecision
fate
It is the lumps and trialsThat tell us whether we shall be knownAnd whether our fate can be exemplary,....
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