126 Quotes by John Ashbery

Death is a new office building filled with modern furniture, A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us.

In the evening Everything has a schedule, if you can find out what it is.

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

Life is not at all what you might think it to be A simple tale where each thing has its history It's much more than its scuffle and anything goes Both evil and good, subject to the same laws.

Life is beautiful. He who reads that As in the window of some distant, speeding train Knows what he wants, and what will befall.

The gray glaze of the past attacks all know-how....

To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps To some reader a latticework of regrets ...

The sun fades like the spreading Of a peacock's tail, as though twilight Might be read as a warning to those desperate For easy solutions.

Will occur as time grows more open about it.