126 Quotes by John Ashbery

সবাই এরা দেখতে বড় চমকপ্রদপ্রতিবেশীর সঙ্গে মেশা গদগদকর্ম যেন কথা বলায় ব্যস্ত থাকাদৈবটাকে দুহাত দিয়ে সাজিয়ে রাখা।হঠাৎ করে দেখা হলো এইযে প্রাতেঅন্য জগৎ থেকে আসা তোমার সাথেতোমার আমার জন্য ছিলো এই নিয়তিবৃথা চেষ্টা করে করে গাছের ক্ষতি।এইখানে তো আমরা আছি বলতে পারিএই থাকাটা শুধুই থাকা আভাস তারইনাকি এটার কোনোরকম অর্থ আছেপরশ, প্রেম ও বিশ্লেষণের ধারেকাছে।আমরা খুশি কেউ আমাদের পায়নি খুঁজে

So that the old joy, modest as cake, as wine and friendship Will stay with us at the last, backed by the night Whose ruse gave it our final meaning

You stupefied me. We waxed, Carnivores, late and alight In the beaded winter. All was ominous, luminous.

I'm heading for a clean-named place like Wisconsin, and mad as a jack-o'-lantern, will get there without help and nosy proclivities.

It is because everything is relative That we shall never see in that sphere of pure wisdom and Entertainment much more than groping shadows of an incomplete Former existence so close it burns like the mouth that Closes down over all your effort like the moment Of death

I want a bedroom near the sky, an astrologer's cave Where I can fashion eclogues that are chaste and grave.

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 start with some New notion or other....

And we may be led, then, upward through more Powerful forms of poetry, past columns With peeling posters on them, to the country of indifference. Meanwhile if the swell diapasons, blooms Unhappily and too soon, the little people are nonetheless real.

And the way Though discontinuous, and intermittent, sometimes Not heard of for years at a time, did, Nonetheless, move up, although, to his surprise It was inside the house, And always getting narrower.