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John Ashbery
American
Poet
About the author
I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.
John Ashbery,
American
Poet
#Mind
The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.
John Ashbery,
American
Poet
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
John Ashbery,
American
Poet
#Poems
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,
American
Poet
#Time
#Poetry
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
John Ashbery,
American
Poet
#Life
#People
#Poetry
#Army
#Salvation