John Ashbery Quotes about Growing Up

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But always and sometimes questioning the old modes And the new wondering, the poem, growing up through the floor, Standing tall in tubers, invading and smashing the ritual Parlor, demands to be met on its own terms now,

But always and sometimes questioning the old modes And the new wondering, the poem, growing up through the floor, Standing tall in tubers, invading and smashing the ritual Parlor, demands to be met on its own terms now, Now that the preliminary negotiations are at last over.

John Ashbery

Life, Growing Up, Demand

John Ashbery (1985). “A Wave: Poems”, p.79, Ardent Media

The promise of learning is a delusion.... Tomorrow would alter the sense of what had already been learned, that the learning process is extended in this way, so that from this standpoint none of us ever graduates from college, for time is an emulsion, and probably thinking not to grow up is the brightest kind of maturity for us, right now at any rate.

John Ashbery

Growing Up, Maturity, College

John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA