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And we may be led, then, upward through more Powerful forms of poetry, past columns With peeling posters on them, to the country of indifference. Meanwhile if the swell diapasons, blooms Unhappily and too soon, the

And we may be led, then, upward through more Powerful forms of poetry, past columns With peeling posters on them, to the country of indifference. Meanwhile if the swell diapasons, blooms Unhappily and too soon, the little people are nonetheless real.

John Ashbery
Country, Art, Powerful
John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

Part of the strength of Pollock and Rothko's art, in fact, is this doubt as to whether art may be there at all.

John Ashbery
Art, Poetry, Doubt

Imagine a painter crucified by his subject!

John Ashbery
Art, Failure, Imagine
John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

Most reckless things are beautiful in some way, and recklessness is what makes experimental art beautiful, just as religions are beautiful because of the strong possibilities that they are founded on nothing.

John Ashbery
Beautiful, Art, Strong
John Ashbery, David Bergman (1989). “Reported sightings: art chronicles, 1957-1987”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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