Ashbery

Famous quotes containing the word ashbery:

“Down in the street there are ice-cream parlors to go to
And the pavement is a nice, bluish slate-gray. People laugh a lot.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“He promised he’d get me out of this one,
That mean old cartoonist, but just look what he’s
Done to me now! I scarce dare approach me mug’s attenuated
Reflection in yon hubcap, so jaundiced, so déconfit
Are its lineaments....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“He walks in his sleep into your life.
He is worth knowing only for the children
He has reared as savages in Utah.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)