Past Quote by John Ashbery Download Open image “What is the past, what is it all for? A mental sandwich?” — John Ashbery ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Past Psychology Sandwiches Time
I'm not much for sitting around and thinking about the past or talking about the past. What does that accomplish? — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
It makes you a different person, to not have a past. It eats away at who you are, until what’s left is all construct,… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
The past is the past for a reason, and that reason was to help make you who are now, and to help give you… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
I think the past is something I have spent a lot of time thinking about, not only what is different about the past but… — Sharon Cameron Copy Share Image
To retrieve the past is no great effort, when the events to be recalled are so firmly imprinted on the mind. It is existence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes. — Adele Parks Copy Share Image
The Past can be used for two things to remember or to motavate you to be better than the person you used to be. — Rozay 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
Because after you've crossed some lines, you just keep crossing them. And there's no escaping from constant escape. Distracting ourselves. Avoiding confrontation. Getting past… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I used to fight with hate. There's been a lot of aggression in my past growing up and stuff. That's because I was hurt… — Rose Namajunas Copy Share Image
In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
Right before the pandemic, 'Past Lives' came across to me as something to read and possibly put myself on tape for. — Mike Faist Copy Share Image
I nibbled my lower lip. "If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
I have a way to photograph. You work with space, you have a camera, you have a frame, and then a fraction of a… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
