John Ashbery

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.

The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

I don't want to read what is going to slide down easily; there has to be some crunch, a certain read more

I don't want to read what is going to slide down easily; there has to be some crunch, a certain amount of resilience.

So that the old joy, modest as cake, as wine and friendship Will stay with us at the last, backed read more

So that the old joy, modest as cake, as wine and friendship Will stay with us at the last, backed by the night Whose ruse gave it our final meaning