Hollow Quote by John Ashbery Download Open image “I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.” — John Ashbery ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hollow Poetry
I also like poems that are haunted by a structure or a narrative, or poems that frisk flirtatiously at the boundary of sense. — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I like the machinery of poems, especially when they have human warmth. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I like it when poems are challenging, when they concern matters important and personal to the author. — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
Most of the time I'm not really attracted to writing that's focused on filling and fighting it out within a well-defined container. I like… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
I think of my best poems as vessels that I can or hope to fill with everything I have. — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it up. — Peleg Top Copy Share Image
A lot of poems are boring and impenetrable. Mine are not. They're really simple. — Tim Key Copy Share Image
I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave. — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in. — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“Yes, they are alive and can have those colors, But I, in my soul, am alive too. I feel I must sing and dance,… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
How many people came and stayed a certain time, Uttered light or dark speech that became part of you Like light behind windblown fog… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Some certified nut Will try to tell you it's poetry, (It's extraordinary, it makes a great deal of sense) But watch out or he'll… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
The ellipse is as aimless as that, Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear In our present. Its flexing is its account,… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“The genius of Cornell is that he sees and enables us to see with the eyes of childhood, before our vision got clouded by… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
The mind Is so hospitable, taking in everything Like boarders, and you don't see until It's all over how little there was to learn… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat. — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
What I like about music is its ability to be convincing, to carry an argument through successfully to the finish, though the terms of… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“The Unknown Travelers Lugged to the gray arbor, I have climbed this snow-stone on my face, My stick, but what, snapped the avalanche The… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
The hollow horn plays wasted words, proves to warn that he not busy being born is busy dying. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I've buried six Guardian Angels who have been shot and killed in the line of duty. I was stalked myself, had a gunman go… — Curtis Sliwa Copy Share Image
Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's like being possessed: like a psychic or a medium. I felt like a hollow temple filled with many spirits, each one passing through… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call to God.… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
We are all busy. It's easy to find excuses for not reaching out to others, but I imagine they will sound as hollow to… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
But the pop-up suburb has an incomplete feel to it like something that just wasn't right, wasn't quite real, almost like a movie set.… — Anne Frasier Copy Share Image
You could hollow out a big pumpkin and wear it on your head for the entire week of your birthday. This will allow you… — Jade Puget Copy Share Image
