John Ashbery Quotes About Death

Quotes about: Death

• Death is a new office building filled with modern furniture,
  A wise thing, but which has no purpose for us.

  John Ashbery

  Death, Wise, Office

  John Ashbery (2011). “The Tennis Court Oath: A Book of Poems”, p.58, Wesleyan University Press

• It is because everything is relative
  That we shall never see in that sphere of pure wisdom and
  Entertainment much more than groping shadows of an incomplete
  Former existence so close it burns like the mouth that
  Closes down over all your effort like the moment
  Of death

  John Ashbery

  Death, Wisdom, Effort

  John Ashbery, Lee Harwood, Tom Raworth (1971). “John Ashbery, Lee Harwood, Tom Raworth”, Not Avail

• It is written in the Book of Usable Minutes
  That all things have their center in their dying.

  John Ashbery

  Death, Book, Dying

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA

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