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Quote by John Ashbery
The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be. - Joh

The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be. – John Ashbery

Other quotes by John Ashbery

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

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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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Ive grown as a person. The dynamics on this set are very demanding because we work a lot of hours, its very sad material, so theres always someone upset because its really heavy stuff. – Elisabeth Rohm

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Ive cried, and youd think Id be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life. – Conor Oberst

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It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy. – Thomas Huxley

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If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions. – Nana Mouskouri

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Ha, ha, ha: love and scandal are the best sweetners of tea. – Henry Fielding, “Love in Several Masques,” 1727 (Lady Matchless)

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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. – Aristotle

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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the countrys cause. – Abraham Lincoln

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Ive never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didnt choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them. – Juliette Binoche

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