126 Quotes by John Ashbery

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 Once the stench of knowledge has dissipated.

A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectability.

I lost my ridiculous accent without acquiring another

Each servant stamps the reader with a look.

Alone with our madness and favorite flower We see that there really is nothing left to write about. Or rather, it is necessary to write about the same old things In the same way, repeating the same things over and over For love to continue and be gradually different.

I often wonder if I am suffering from some mental dysfunction because of how weird and baffling my poetry seems to so many people and sometimes to me too.

The winter does what it can for its children.

It is written in the Book of Usable Minutes That all things have their center in their dying....

And just as there are no words for the surface, that is, No words to say what it really is, that it is not Superficial but a visible core, then there is No way out of the problem of pathos vs. experience.