John Ashbery quotes

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Everything is being blown away;
A little horse trots with a letter in its mouth, which is read with eagerness
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And of the other things death is a new office building filled with modern furniture,
A wise thing, but which has no purpose f
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Man is never without woman, the neuter sex
Casting up her equations, looks to her lord for loving kindness
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He gathers deeds
In the pure air, the agent
Of their factual excesses.
her patience,
The imperative Become, trembles
Where hands have been before.
The night is itself sleep
And what goes on in it, the naming of the wind,
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Where then shall hope and fear their objects find?
The distant box is open. A sound of grain
Poured over the floor in some eagerness we
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With all of my power of living
I am forced to lie on the floor.
Playing alone, I found the wall.
One side was gray, the other an indelible gray.
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