There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.
More Quotes from John Ashbery:
Life, ourLife anyway, is between.
John Ashbery
Only love stays on the brain, and something these people,
These other ones, call life.
John Ashbery
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
John Ashbery
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
(I-Newswire) - In the free event, Bell will read from No Planets Strike, ... Edgy in both senses of the word, Josh Bell populates his daft American heartland with the runaway muse Ramona and her clones. The resulting landscapes are as dangerous, funny, and drop-dead gorgeous as those in a Road Runner cartoon.
John Ashbery
The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.
John Ashbery
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