Quotation by John Ashbery

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The light that was shadowed then
Was seen to be our lives,
Everything about us that love might wish to examine,
Then put away for a certain length of time, until
The whole is to be reviewed, and we turned
Toward each other, to each other.

John Ashbery

John Ashbery (b. 1927), U.S. poet, critic. "As We Know."

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