Comprehensive information about John Ashbery including biographical information, facts, literary works, and more. An American poet.. American poet; 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry This educational John Ashbery resource has information about the author's life, works, quotations, articles and essays, and more.
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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. Go to Quote / Comment
I remember meeting you in a dark dream Of April, you or some girl, The necklace of wishes alive and breathing around your throat. Go to Quote / Comment
It is written in the Book of Usable Minutes That all things have their center in their dying.... Go to Quote / Comment
Another time I go outside Into the world. It rocks on and on. It was rocking before I saw it And is presumably doing so still. Go to Quote / Comment
"We, we children, why our lives are circumscribed, circumferential; Close, too close to the center...." Go to Quote / Comment