I don't want to read what is going to slide down easily; there has to be some crunch, a certain amount of resilience.
John AshberyThe summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes
John AshberyI often wonder if I am suffering from some mental dysfunction because of how weird and baffling my poetry seems to so many people and sometimes to me too.
John Ashbery