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“I am only a transparent diagram, of manners and
Private words with the certainty of being about to fall.”
— John Ashbery, CLEPSYDRA
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“For things can harden meaningfully in the moment of indecision”
—— John Ashbery, “Grand Galop” (Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror)
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The sarabande
is finished, kaput. Not that it matters to spectators eager for anything and nothing.
As long as you sign the guest book
the great dream can roll on.
—John Ashbery (from SITTING AT THE TABLE)
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The gangster no longer wanted to sleep with him,
but what the heck. With time off
for actual fuzz collected . . . All right, boys.
Cheap murders, peach driven . . . I see enough of those
samples along the way.
—John Ashbery (from LATE-ISH)
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There are still other made-up countries
Where we can hide forever,
Wasted with eternal desire and sadness,
Sucking the sherbets, crooning the tunes, naming the names.
—Ashbery (from HOP 'O MY THUMB)
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Just when I thought there wasn’t room enough
for another thought in my head, I had this great idea—
call it a philosophy of life, if you will. Briefly,
it involved living the way philosophers live,
according to a set of principles. OK, but which ones?
—Ashbery
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Soon the president joined us. He was worried but polite.
The daughters in their simple white frocks came out on the White House lawn
and had a very nice chat. They said it was an allegory
or oligarchy, and to roll with the punches.
—Ashbery, FAINT OF HEART
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But now only the sound of the truth as it is broken off from your mouth can kindle this apathetic valley that wants nothing better than to lapse back into the scenery of its dull vegetation.
—John Ashbery (from THE NEW SPIRIT)
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We could see it coming from forever,
then it was simply here, parallel
to the day’s walking. By then it was we
who had disappeared, into the tunnel of a book.
—John Ashbery (from WHERE SHALL I WANDER)
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One is uncertain
How the future is going to handle this.
Will it reveal itself again,
Or only in the artificial calm
Of one person’s resolve to do better
Yet strike a harder bargain,
Next time?
John Ashbery (from OSTENSIBLY)
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Once, out on the water in the clear, early nineteenth-century twilight,
you asked time to suspend its flight. If wishes could beget more than sobs
that would be my wish for you, my darling, my angel.
John Ashbery (from POEM AT THE NEW YEAR)
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WE WERE ON THE TERRACE
DRINKING GIN AND TONICS
When the squall hit.
—John Ashbery (from AS WE KNOW)
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Like the feelings we can never throw out.
He would be tired, or outraged,
never satisfied to light on a peak
in a distant mountain range.
Like dreaming, but not enough.
—John Ashbery (from IN DREAMS I KISS YOUR HAND, MADAME)
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Come in, anyway,
and don’t lack for tales of the Assertion.
We’re talking civilian unrest.
Yes, well, maybe you should take one.
(Do not bite or chew.)
—John Ashbery (from PEOPLE BEHAVING BADLY A CONCERN)
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Just time to reread this
And the past slips through your fingers, wishing you were there.
—John Ashbery (from A MAN OF WORDS)
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sometimes
one will hold on to another’s head and then let go: it’s my Sonata
of Experience, and I wrote if for you.
—John Ashbery (from FLOW CHART)
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That’s why I quit and took up writing poetry instead.
It’s clean, it’s relaxing, it doesn’t squire juice all over
Something you were certain of a minute ago and now your face
Is a stranger and no one can tell you it’s true. Hey stupid!
—John Ashbery
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Guided by a ruler held against a photomural of the Alps
We both come to see distance as something unofficial
And impersonal yet now without its curious justification
Like the time of a stop watch—right twice a day.
—John Ashbery
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...none of them would leave without the other
for they said we are all one here
and if one of us goes the other will not go
and the wind whispered it to the stars
the people all got up to go
and looked back on love
—John Ashbery (from HOW TO CONTINUE)
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Yet in the textbooks thereof you keep getting mired
In a backward innocence, although that too is something
That must be owned, together with the rest.
There is always some impurity. Help it along!
Make room for it!
—John Ashbery (from THE IVORY TOWER)
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