Quotes by : John Ashbery

The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through …

The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.

until only infinity remained of beauty

How many people came and stayed a certain time,Uttered light or dark speech that became part of youLike....

Its a bit mad. Too bad, I mean, that getting to know each just for a fleeting second Must be replaced....

The music brought us what it seemed / We had long desired, but in a form / so rarefied there was no emptiness....

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally....

I'm heading for a clean-named placelike Wisconsin, and mad as a jack-o'-lantern, will get therewithout....

A little bunny or some kind of ferret was probablythere too, and bore witness as only rodents can.

You bad birds,But God shall not punish you, youShall be with us in heaven, though lessConscious of your....