John Ashbery Quotes

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"A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectability."

"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."

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

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