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John Ashbery

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until only infinity remained of beauty


— John Ashbery


#infinity #beauty

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


— John Ashbery


#cake #love #poetry #reality #year

The music brought us what it seemed / We had long desired, but in a form / so rarefied there was no emptiness of sensation


— John Ashbery


#the-mythological-poet #music

The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.


— John Ashbery


#cannot #poem #sad #wants #yours

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 length.


— John Ashbery


#feel #going #head #i #i feel

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.


— John Ashbery


#confuse #i #i think #improve #life

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.


— John Ashbery


#hollow #i #like #over #places

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


— John Ashbery


#experiences #i #i write #mind #out






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"No figure looms so large in American poetry over the past 50 years as John Ashbery" Langdon Hammer chairman of the English Department at Yale University wrote in 2008.

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"No figure looms so large in American poetry over the past 50 years as John Ashbery" Langdon Hammer chairman of the English Department at Yale University wrote in 2008. Ashbery has stated that he wiJohn Ashberys his work to be accessible to as many people as possible and not to be a private dialogue with himself.

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