Quotation by John Ashbery

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I feel the carousel starting slowly
And going faster and faster: desk, papers, books,
Photographs of friends, the window and the trees
Merging in one neutral band that surrounds
Me on all sides, everywhere I look.

John Ashbery

John Ashbery (b. 1927), U.S. poet, critic. "Self–Portrait in a Convex Mirror."

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