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Poetry Quotes by John Ashbery
- I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
- I don't find any direct statements in life. My poetry imitates or reproduces the way knowledge or awareness come to me, which is by fits…
- There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
- I feel that poetry is going on all the time inside, an underground stream.
- 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…
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