John Ashbery Inspirational Quotes

Quotes about: Inspirational

• Life is beautiful. He who reads that
  As in the window of some distant, speeding train
  Knows what he wants, and what will befall.

  John Ashbery

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

• Then let yourself love all that you take delight in
  Accept yourself whole, accept the heritage
  That shaped you and is passed on from age to age
  Down to your entity. Remain mysterious;
  Rather than be pure, accept yourself as numerous.

  John Ashbery

  Inspirational, Life, Self Love

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA

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

  John Ashbery

  Inspirational, Life, Army

  1989 In the International Herald Tribune, 2 Oct.

• 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.

  John Ashbery

  Inspirational, Life, Twilight

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA

• All beauty, resonance, integrity,
  Exist by deprivation or logic
  Of strange position.

  John Ashbery

  Inspirational, Life, Integrity

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

• This whole moment is the groin
  Of a borborygmic giant who even now
  Is rolling over on us in his sleep.

  John Ashbery

  Inspirational, Life, Sleep

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

• The gray glaze of the past attacks all know-how...

  John Ashbery

  Inspirational, Life, Past

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA

• Expecting rain, the profile of a day Wears its soul like a hat.

  John Ashbery

  Inspirational, Life, Rain

  John Ashbery (1981). “Shadow train: poems”, Viking Adult

• Life is not at all what you might think it to be
  A simple tale where each thing has its history
  It's much more than its scuffle and anything goes
  Both evil and good, subject to the same laws.

  John Ashbery

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA

• To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps To some reader a latticework of regrets.

  John Ashbery

  Inspirational, Life, Quilts

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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