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What is the past, what is it all for? A mental sandwich?

What is the past, what is it all for? A mental sandwich?

John Ashbery
Past, Sandwiches
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

Sometimes a musical phrase would perfectly sum up The mood of a moment. One of those lovelorn sonatas For wind instruments was riding past on a solemn white horse. Everybody wondered who the new arrival was.

John Ashbery
Music, Horse, Past
John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”

We might realize that the present moment may be one of an eternal or sempiternal series of moments, all of which will resemble it because, in some ways, they are the present, and won't in other ways, because the present will be the past by that time.

John Ashbery
Past, May, Might

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