“it is best then that the buried word remain buried for we were intended to appreciate only its fruits and not the secret principle activating them to know this would be to know too much. Meanwhile it is possible to know just enough, and this is all we were supposed to know, toward which we have been straining all our lives.”
John Ashbery
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“There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.”
John Ashbery
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“it is best then that the buried word remain buried for we were intended to appreciate only its fruits and not the secret principleactivating them to know this would be to know too much. Meanwhile it is possible to know just enough, and this is all we were supposed to know, toward which we have been straining all our lives.”
John Ashbery
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“You have original artworks hanging on the walls oh I said edit”
John Ashbery
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“Imagine a painter crucified by his subject!”
John Ashbery
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“Where then shall hope and fear their objects find?”
John Ashbery
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