John Ashbery, Self-Portrait In A Convex Mirror Quotes
The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes
Things can harden meaningfully in the moment of indecision
I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free.
It is the lumps and trialsThat tell us whether we shall be knownAnd whether our fate can be exemplary, like a star.