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John Ashbery Quotes: To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps To some reader a latticework of regrets.
         

To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps To some reader a latticework of regrets.


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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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The ellipse is as aimless as that, Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear In our present. Its flexing is its account, Return to the point of no return.

The ellipse is as aimless as that, Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear In our present. Its flexing is its account, Return to the point of no return.



You stupefied me. We waxed, Carnivores, late and alight In the beaded winter. All was ominous, luminous.

You stupefied me. We waxed, Carnivores, late and alight In the beaded winter. All was ominous, luminous.



Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.

Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.



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

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



I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.



Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.

Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.



The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes



And so we turn the page over. To think of starting. This is all there is.

And so we turn the page over. To think of starting. This is all there is.



In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat.

In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat.





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Do you think I would enter into a contract with that mob? Absolutely no chance. I would not sell them a virus. That is a 'No' by the way. There is no agreement whatsoever between the clubs.

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Hold me closer tiny dancer, count the headlights on the highway. Lay me down in sheets of linen, you had a busy day today.

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We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world, And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh.

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