John Ashbery ( 10 of 10 )
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.
A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectability.
A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectability.
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
[(I-Newswire) - In the free event, Bell will read from] No Planets Strike, ... Edgy in both senses of the read more
[(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.
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.
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and read more
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.
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.
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.
