Rummaging through some old poems
for ideas -- surely I must have had some
once? Some people have an idea a day,
others millions, still others are condemned
to spend their life inside an idea, like a
bubble chamber. And these are probably
the suspicious ones. Anyway, in poems
are no ideas. No ideas in things, either--
her name is Wichita.
--John Ashbery,
from "And the Stars Were Shining"
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06 January 2011
Today's Idea
Labels:
John Ashbery,
poetry,
Quotes,
Wichita
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