Ashbery Poet Quotes

#1. Transgress. In a word, be other than yourself in turning into your love-soaked opposite.

John Ashbery

#2. The music brought us what it seemed / We had long desired, but in a form / so rarefied there was no emptiness of sensation

John Ashbery

#3. To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps
To some reader a latticework of regrets ...

John Ashbery

#4. Do what you dream of doing and never lose sight of that

Marty Sklar

#5. Perhaps, however, it is the same with spinsters as with ghosts; and one has to be of their ranks in order to see them at all.

Sarah Waters

#6. I think that in the process of writing, all kinds of unexpected things happen that shift the poet away from his plan and that these accidents are really what we mean when we talk about poetry.

John Ashbery

#7. Are all of us the same, I wonder, navigating our lives by interpreting the silences between words spoken, analysing the returning echoes of our memory in order to chart the terrain, in order to make sense of the world around us?

Tan Twan Eng

#8. Where you're from only matters in relation to where you are.

Malcolm Forbes

#9. She would be an object in motion that would stay in motion, even if it meant flattening everything in her path.

Amy Zhang

#10. Her smile surfaced and my morning started to brighten up

Nimish Tanna

#11. You never know how long it will take. The route to success is unpredictable. So pack the essentials: parcels of love and peace, packets of patience and hope, and bundles of perseverance!

Manuela George-Izunwa