John Ashbery Quotes
7 John Ashbery quotes:
"I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them."
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"The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be."
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"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."
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"I was doubly thrilled. Because [Auden] had been my favorite poet ever since I first read him at the age of, I guess, 16. Because he was the first modern poet I felt I could understand and empathize with. So, coming from him, it was even more rewarding."
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"There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army."
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"So that the old joy, modest as cake, as wine and friendship Will stay with us at the last, backed by the night Whose ruse gave it our final meaning"
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"I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places."
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