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John Ashbery Quotes: The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.
         

The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.


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The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through.

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I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

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Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.



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The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes



And so we turn the page over. To think of starting. This is all there is.

And so we turn the page over. To think of starting. This is all there is.



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