John Ashbery Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

  John Ashbery

  Writing, Mind

• I am often asked why I write, and I don't know really--I just want to.

  John Ashbery

  Writing, Want, Knows

• 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

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

• Alone with our madness and favorite flower
  We see that there really is nothing left to write about.
  Or rather, it is necessary to write about the same old things
  In the same way, repeating the same things over and over
  For love to continue and be gradually different.

  John Ashbery

  Love, Flower, Writing

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

• I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.

  John Ashbery

  Writing, Political, Writing Poetry

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• One can lose a good idea by not writing it down, yet by losing it one can have it: it nourishes other asides it knows nothing of, would not recognize itself in, yet when the negotiations are terminated, speaks in the acts of that progenitor, and does recognize itself, is grateful for not having done so earlier.

  John Ashbery

  Grateful, Writing, Ideas

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