John Ashbery

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

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  –John Ashbery

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• “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

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  –John Ashbery

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