I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length. -John Ashbery

 

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.


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This quote is just one of 9 total John Ashbery quotes in our collection. John Ashbery is known for saying 'I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.' as well as some of the following quotes.

Where Shall I Wander.

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So that the old joy, modest as cake, as wine and friendship Will stay with us at the last, backed by the night Whose ruse gave it our final meaning.

John Ashbery
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I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length. -John Ashbery
209

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

John Ashbery
205

A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectability.

John Ashbery
146
The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be. -John Ashbery
134

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

John Ashbery
132