Quotation by John Ashbery

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For this is action, this is not being sure, this careless
Preparing, sowing the seeds crooked in the furrow,
Making ready to forget, and always coming back
To the mooring of starting out, that day so long ago.

John Ashbery

John Ashbery (b. 1927), U.S. poet, critic. "Soonest Mended."

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