The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes
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