John Ashbery Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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John Ashbery Quotes

Type: Poet Quotes Category: American Poet Quotes Date of Birth: July 28, 1927 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: John Ashbery Related Authors: Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost Langston Hughes Emily Dickinson Edgar Allan Poe T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman James Russell Lowell	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 I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. John Ashbery I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them. John Ashbery The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be. John Ashbery There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. John Ashbery