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

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

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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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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I will be sad. Ive gotten very attached to Harry and all that goes on in his world, I guess Ill just be kind of tasting every bit of it because it will be the last one. – Mary Grandpre

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I have had stalkers over the years. The police deal with it but it is very scary. One man kept turning up where we filmed Countdown in Leeds, which was scary. It was sad as hed been sectioned and thought I was talking to him through the TV. – Carol Vorderman

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I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, thats real. Mistreatment of other people because Im better than you are is such a sad part of the world. – Melissa Leo

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They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that Im going to miss mine by just a few days. – Garrison Keillor

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