John Ashbery Quotes

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• The evening light was like honey in the trees When you left me and walked to the end of the street Where the sunset abruptly…
• Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night, Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes. But…
• Just when I thought there wasn't room enough for another thought in my head, I had this great idea—
• until only infinity remained of beauty
• I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free.
• The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes
• Its a bit mad. Too bad, I mean, that getting to know each just for a fleeting second Must be replaced by unperfect knowledge of…
• Things can harden meaningfully in the moment of indecision
• The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through …
• How many people came and stayed a certain time, Uttered light or dark speech that became part of you Like light behind windblown fog and…
• It seems only yesterday that we saw The movie with the cows in it And turned to one at your side, who burped As morning…
• Popeye, forced as you know to flee the country One musty gusty evening, by the schemes of his wizened, duplicate father, jealous of the apartment…
• .. like a Wave on a beach, that thinks it's had this Tremendous idea, coming to crash on the beach Like that, and it's true,…
• There is dreaminess and infection in the sum....
• The disquieting muses again: what are leftovers?
• The shadow of the Venetian blind on the painted wall, Shadows of the snake-plant and cacti, the plaster animals, Focus the tragic melancholy of the…

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