A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectability.
John AshberySomewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you, At incredible speed, traveling day and night.
John AshberyI listen to music a great deal. In a way, it's trying to express things that can't be expressed in words. That's something that interests me, too. Even though I use words to express myself, I am trying to, it seems to me, get beyond that.
John AshberyPoetry comes to me out of thin air or out of my unconscious mind. It's sort of the way dreams come to us and the way that we get knowledge from them, through television, old movies, which I watch a lot of. Lines of dialogue suddenly seem to be part of a poem.
John Ashbery