The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be. – 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
There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army. – 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
Baseball, to me, is still the national pastime because it is a summer game. I feel that almost all Americans are summer people, that summer is what they think of when they think of their childhood. I think it stirs up an incredible emotion within people. – Steve Busby, in Washington Post, 8 July 1974