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Then let yourself love all that you take delight in Accept yourself whole, accept the heritage That shaped you and is passed on from age to age Down to your entity. Remain mysterious; Rather than be pure, accept

Then let yourself love all that you take delight in Accept yourself whole, accept the heritage That shaped you and is passed on from age to age Down to your entity. Remain mysterious; Rather than be pure, accept yourself as numerous.

John Ashbery
Inspirational, Life, Self Love
John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA

To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps To some reader a latticework of regrets.

John Ashbery
Inspirational, Life, Quilts
John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

All beauty, resonance, integrity, Exist by deprivation or logic Of strange position.

John Ashbery
Inspirational, Life, Integrity
John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

The gray glaze of the past attacks all know-how...

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

Life is beautiful. He who reads that As in the window of some distant, speeding train Knows what he wants, and what will befall.

John Ashbery
Inspirational, Life, Beautiful
John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

Expecting rain, the profile of a day Wears its soul like a hat.

John Ashbery
Inspirational, Life, Rain
John Ashbery (1981). “Shadow train: poems”, Viking Adult

The sun fades like the spreading Of a peacock's tail, as though twilight Might be read as a warning to those desperate For easy solutions.

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

This whole moment is the groin Of a borborygmic giant who even now Is rolling over on us in his sleep.

John Ashbery
Inspirational, Life, Sleep
John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

John Ashbery
Inspirational, Life, Army
1989 In the International Herald Tribune, 2 Oct.

Life is not at all what you might think it to be A simple tale where each thing has its history It's much more than its scuffle and anything goes Both evil and good, subject to the same laws.

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

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