The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes
John AshberyIt never seems to occur to anyone that each reader is different, and that even those who might be said to resemble each other will each bring an individual set of experiences and references to their reading, and interpret and misinterpret it according to these.
John AshberyIn the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat.
John Ashbery