John Ashbery Quote

And just as there are no words for the surface, that is,
No words to say what it really is, that it is not
Superficial but a visible core, then there is
No way out of the problem of pathos vs. experience.

Selected Poems (ed. Penguin Group USA, 1986)

And just as there are no words for the surface, that is, No words to say what it really is, that it is not Superficial but a visible core, then there ...

And just as there are no words for the surface, that is, No words to say what it really is, that it is not Superficial but a visible core, then there ...

And just as there are no words for the surface, that is, No words to say what it really is, that it is not Superficial but a visible core, then there ...

And just as there are no words for the surface, that is, No words to say what it really is, that it is not Superficial but a visible core, then there ...