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All beauty, resonance, integrity, Exist by deprivation or logic Of strange position.
John Ashbery
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John Ashbery
Age: 90 †
Born: 1927
Born: July 28
Died: 2017
Died: September 3
Journalist
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Rochester
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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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Death is a new office building filled with modern furniture, A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us.
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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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Some certified nut Will try to tell you it's poetry, (It's extraordinary, it makes a great deal of sense) But watch out or he'll start with some New notion or other.
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The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.
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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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The soul is not a soul, Has no secret, is small, and it fits Its hollow perfectly: its room, our moment of attention.
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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'm heading for a clean-named place like Wisconsin, and mad as a jack-o'-lantern, will get there without help and nosy proclivities.
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I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free.
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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.
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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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Extreme patience and persistence are required, Yet everybody succeeds at this before being handed The surprise box lunch of the rest of his life.
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Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night.
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Imagine a painter crucified by his subject!
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There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
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... the first step of the terrible journey toward feeling somebody should act, that ends in utter confusion and hopelessness, east of the sun and west of the moon.
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