Quotes of John Ashbery

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I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

- John Ashbery

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“ Looks like to me we all begin and end in the same place. Perhaps we could love each other a little bit more along the way. ”

- Clyde Lee Dennis

“ It takes courage to be honest and to work, while others play, cheat, sponge like parasites or are idle. There is value in the work that you choose to do, and you are an innately valuable person. ”

- Zita Steele

“ It’s time to care; it’s time to take responsibility; it’s time to lead; it’s time for a change; it’s time to be true to our greatest self; it’s time to stop blaming others. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ May I share with you a formula that in my judgment will help you and help me to journey well through mortality... First, fill your mind with truth; second, fill your life with service; and third, fill your heart with love. ”

- Thomas S. Monson

“ Where wild souls meet wild lovers is where hurricanes are made. ”

- ventum

“ One word Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love. ”

- Sophocles

“ If music be the food of love, play on. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ”

- John Updike

“ It’s not bragging if you can back it up. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ Tough times never last. Tough people do ”

- Robert Schuller

“ How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em. ”

- Shel Silverstein

“ One thing I learned out of all these years is nobody really riding wit you like they say n I’ll always keep my guard up cause of all the fuckery. ”

- Genereux Philip

“ I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope. ”

- Nelson Mandela

“ What I stand for is what I stand on. ”

- Wendell Berry

“ Love overcomes bitterness, overpowers sorrow, overwhelms anger, and overthrows hatred. Medicine heals the body, faith heals the heart, wisdom heals the mind, and love heals the soul. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ There is nothing higher than love, and nothing lower than ignorance. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ A heart filled with anger has no room for love. ”

- Joan Lunden

“ Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. ”

- Anais Nin

“ Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. ”

- St. Augustine

“ I was blind and heart broken and didn't want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, "I have wonderful news!" And I was like, "I don't really want to hear wonderful news right now," and Gus said, "This is wonderful news you want to hear," and I asked him, "Fine, what is it?" and he said, "You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet! ”

- John Green

“ Every man is a boyfriend. But some people do not have the ability to become husbands. ”

- Sajal Ahmed