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The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.

- John Ashbery

Sad, Poem, Wants, Yours

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

Going, Length, Works, Occasionally

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

- John Ashbery

Places, Over, Poems, Hollow

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

- John Ashbery

Think, Salvation, I Think, Confuse

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