John Ashbery Quote

Life is beautiful. He who reads that
As in the window of some distant, speeding train
Knows what he wants, and what will befall.


Selected Poems (ed. 1986)


Life is beautiful. He who reads that As in the window of some distant, speeding train Knows what he wants, and what will befall.

Life is beautiful. He who reads that As in the window of some distant, speeding train Knows what he wants, and what will befall.

Life is beautiful. He who reads that As in the window of some distant, speeding train Knows what he wants, and what will befall.

Life is beautiful. He who reads that As in the window of some distant, speeding train Knows what he wants, and what will befall.