And we may be led, then, upward through more
Powerful forms of poetry, past columns
With peeling posters on them, to the country of indifference.
Meanwhile if the swell diapasons, blooms
Unhappily and too soon, the little people are nonetheless real.


Selected Poems (ed. 1986)

John Ashbery Quotes

And we may be led, then, upward through more Powerful forms of poetry, past columns With peeling posters on them, to the country of indifference....

And we may be led, then, upward through more Powerful forms of poetry, past columns With peeling posters on them, to the country of indifference....

And we may be led, then, upward through more Powerful forms of poetry, past columns With peeling posters on them, to the country of indifference....

And we may be led, then, upward through more Powerful forms of poetry, past columns With peeling posters on them, to the country of indifference....