John Ashbery Quotes About Poetry

Quotes about: Poetry

• 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.

• I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

  John Ashbery

  Poetry, Hammers, Hollow

• 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”

• Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at all.

  John Ashbery

  Art, Poetry, Doubt

• I want a bedroom near the sky, an astrologer's cave
  Where I can fashion eclogues that are chaste and grave.

  John Ashbery

  Fashion, Sky, Astrology

  John Ashbery (1985). “A Wave: Poems”, p.7, Ardent Media

• Some certified nut
  Will try to tell you it's poetry,
  (It's extraordinary, it makes a great deal of sense)
  But watch out or he'll start with some
  New notion or other.

  John Ashbery

  Nuts, Poetry, Trying

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

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