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Death is a new office building filled with modern furniture, A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us.
John Ashbery
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John Ashbery
Age: 90 †
Born: 1927
Born: July 28
Died: 2017
Died: September 3
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Just keep playing, mastering as you do the step Into disorder this one meant. Don't you see It's all we can do? Meanwhile, great fires Arise, as of haystacks aflame. The dial has been set And that's ominous, but all your graciousness in living Conspires with it, now that this is our home: A place to be from, and have people ask about.
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Until, accustomed to disappointments, you can let yourself rule and be ruled by these strings or emanations that connect everything together, you haven't fully exorcised the demon of doubt that sets you in motion like a rocking horse that cannot stop rocking.
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Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.
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Therefore bivouac we On this great, blond highway, unimpeded by Veiled scruples, worn conundrums. Morning is Impermanent. Grab sex things, swing up Over the horizon like a boy On a fishing expedition.
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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.
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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.
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All beauty, resonance, integrity, Exist by deprivation or logic Of strange position.
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Not until it starts to stink does the inevitable happen.
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It is written in the Book of Usable Minutes That all things have their center in their dying.
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Silly girls your heads full of boys
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Once a happy old man One can never change the core of things, and light burns you the harder for it.
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I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free.
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Life is beautiful. He who reads that As in the window of some distant, speeding train Knows what he wants, and what will befall.
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The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes
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Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night.
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The ellipse is as aimless as that, Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear In our present. Its flexing is its account, Return to the point of no return.
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I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
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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.
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What is the past, what is it all for? A mental sandwich?
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Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at all.
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