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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.
John Ashbery
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John Ashbery
Age: 90 †
Born: 1927
Born: July 28
Died: 2017
Died: September 3
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Things can harden meaningfully in the moment of indecision
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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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The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.
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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.
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To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps To some reader a latticework of regrets.
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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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You stupefied me. We waxed, Carnivores, late and alight In the beaded winter. All was ominous, luminous.
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Its a bit mad. Too bad, I mean, that getting to know each just for a fleeting second Must be replaced by unperfect knowledge of the featureless whole Like some pocket history of the world, so general As to constitute a sob or wail
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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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I listen to music a great deal. In a way, it's trying to express things that can't be expressed in words. That's something that interests me, too. Even though I use words to express myself, I am trying to, it seems to me, get beyond that.
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All beauty, resonance, integrity, Exist by deprivation or logic Of strange position.
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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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The soul establishes itself. But how far can it swim out through the eyes And still return safely to its nest?
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Silly girls your heads full of boys
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Life is not at all what you might think it to be A simple tale where each thing has its history It's much more than its scuffle and anything goes Both evil and good, subject to the same laws.
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Not until it starts to stink does the inevitable happen.
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