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A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectability.
John Ashbery
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John Ashbery
Age: 90 †
Born: 1927
Born: July 28
Died: 2017
Died: September 3
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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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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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The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.
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Poetry comes to me out of thin air or out of my unconscious mind. It's sort of the way dreams come to us and the way that we get knowledge from them, through television, old movies, which I watch a lot of. Lines of dialogue suddenly seem to be part of a poem.
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Expecting rain, the profile of a day Wears its soul like a hat.
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All beauty, resonance, integrity, Exist by deprivation or logic Of strange position.
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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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In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat.
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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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It is written in the Book of Usable Minutes That all things have their center in their dying.
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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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