John Ashbery dan Puisi

"I don't find any direct statements in life. My poetry imitates or reproduces the way knowledge or awareness come to me, which is by fits and starts and by indirection. I don't think poetry arranged in neat patterns would reflect that situation. My poetry is disjunct, but then so is life."

(John Ahsbery)

Dalam pembacaan saya tidak mencari susunan bahasa yang terurus dan pemikiran yang sistematik. Saya mencari susunan bahasa yang memikat dan pemikiran yang puitis.