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John Ashbery Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: July 28, 1927

Topics

Time Poetry Feel Look Head Going

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

Love Relationship Love Is Gift Think

It's wonderful to play a villain who gets a laugh or to stop a comedy dead in its tracks with a touching moment. It's kind of like a symphony that has very different movements.

Moment Villain Laugh Comedy Play

There's something to be said for giving and helping to change people's lives.

Steven A. Cohen

Change People Giving Said Something

It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.

Good Evil Doing Enough Us Shall

I just want people to be inspired - not only young girls but young people in general - and I just want them to know they can do anything they want to do, and they are beautiful, and they are smart.

Beautiful Smart People Know Young

The thing that got me closest to doing Kermit was remembering what Jim did when he was doing Kermit. When he would do Kermit, there were certain faces that he made. There was a certain way he stood, a certain kind of body language that he had.

Me Language Doing Body Kind Way

I feel like after my incident, it really made me realize football is not here forever. I'm all the more anxious to come out here and let my teammates know, 'Look, hey, this is the same JPP. Missing fingers aren't going to stop me from playing some ball.'

Jason Pierre-Paul

Football Me Feel Look Stop Know

But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.

Wish You Kind I Wish See Miss

I like to feel occupied.

Feel Like Occupied

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

Commitment Promises Plans Hopes Made

At the end of the day, you sign a record deal and you understand where it could go if you had the right song.

Day Song End Of The Day End You Go

The aliens of 'The 5th Wave' are not the aliens we've imagined. Not the aliens we'd like to attack us.

Wave Us Attack Like Imagined

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