John Ashbery Quote

Until, accustomed to disappointments, you can let yourself rule and be ruled by these strings or emanations that connect everything together, you haven't fully exorcised the demon of doubt that sets you in motion like a rocking horse that cannot stop rocking.

Selected Poems (ed. Penguin Group USA, 1986)

Until, accustomed to disappointments, you can let yourself rule and be ruled by these strings or emanations that connect everything together, you...

Until, accustomed to disappointments, you can let yourself rule and be ruled by these strings or emanations that connect everything together, you...

Until, accustomed to disappointments, you can let yourself rule and be ruled by these strings or emanations that connect everything together, you...

Until, accustomed to disappointments, you can let yourself rule and be ruled by these strings or emanations that connect everything together, you...