John Ashbery Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• What is the past, what is it all for? A mental sandwich?

  John Ashbery

  Past, Sandwiches

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

• Sometimes a musical phrase would perfectly sum up
  The mood of a moment. One of those lovelorn sonatas
  For wind instruments was riding past on a solemn white horse.
  Everybody wondered who the new arrival was.

  John Ashbery

  Music, Horse, Past

  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

• We might realize that the present moment may be one of an eternal or sempiternal series of moments, all of which will resemble it because, in some ways, they are the present, and won't in other ways, because the present will be the past by that time.

  John Ashbery

  Past, May, Might

• And we may be led, then, upward through more
  Powerful forms of poetry, past columns
  With peeling posters on them, to the country of indifference.
  Meanwhile if the swell diapasons, blooms
  Unhappily and too soon, the little people are nonetheless real.

  John Ashbery

  Country, Art, Powerful

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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