I dont look on poetry as closed works. I feel theyre going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length. – John Ashbery
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. – John Ashbery
The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be. – John Ashbery
I grew up in the 80s where theres a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where youre not supposed to. – Gillian Flynn