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You might as well linger On verandas, enjoying life, knowing The end is essentially unpredictable.
By John Ashbery
You who were directionless, and thought it would solve everything if you found one, What do you make of this? Just because a thing is imm...
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Yes, in the long run there is something to be said for these shiftless days, each distilling its drop of poison until the cup is full; there i...
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We too are somehow impossible, formed of so many different things, Too many to make sense to anybody....
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Well, it is a good experience, to divest oneself of some tested ideals, some old standbys, And even finding nothing to put in their place...
By John Ashbery
We are happy in our way of life. It doesn't make much sense to others. We sit about, Read, and are restless.
By John Ashbery
We are prisoners of the world's demented sink. The soft enchantments of our years of innocence...
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Too often when you thought you'd be showered with confetti What they flung at you was a plate of hot spaghetti...
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There are no other questions than these, Half squashed in mud, emerging out of the moment...
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Then it doesn't Matter that the deaths come in the wrong order. All has been so easily...
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The door is opening. A man you have never seen enters the room. He tells you that it is time to go, but that you may stay,...
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Such moments as we prized in life: The promise of a new day, living with lots of people...
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Some day I'll claim to you how all used up I am because of you but in the meantime the ride...
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Only then can the chronic inattention Of our lives drape itself around us, conciliatory....
By John Ashbery
Once a happy old man One can never change the core of things, and light burns you the harder for it.
By John Ashbery
One idea is enough to organize a life and project it Into unusual but viable forms, but many ideas merely...
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Like snow having second thoughts and coming back To be wary about this, to embellish that, as though life were a party...
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Life became a pregnant silence, but it was understood that the silence was to lead nowhere.
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Life is beautiful. He who reads that As in the window of some distant, speeding train Knows what he wants, and what will befall.
By John Ashbery
Life is not at all what you might think it to be A simple tale where each thing has its history...
By John Ashbery