John Ashbery: Quotes about thinking

John Ashbery was poet from the United States. Explore interesting quotes on thinking.

John Ashbery: 28 quotes 1 like

“It didn’t pay very much, but it enabled me to get other jobs doing art criticism, which I didn’t want to do very much, but as so often when you exhibit reluctance to do something, people think you must be very good at it. If I had set out to be an art critic, I might never have succeeded.”

John Ashbery

Source: The Paris Review (Issue 90, Winter 1983)

People , Art , Thinking

“There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.”

John Ashbery

International Herald Tribune (Paris, October 2, 1989) The Columbia World of Quotations, 1996. http://www.bartleby.com/66/78/4378.html

Life , People , Thinking

“Well, there are certain stock words that I have found myself using a great deal. When I become aware of them, it is an alarm signal meaning I am falling back on something that has served in the past—it is a sign of not thinking at the present moment, not that there is anything intrinsically bad about certain words or phrases.”

John Ashbery

Source: Paris Review Interview (1983)

Thinking , Past