"The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be"
- John Ashbery
About this Quote
This quote from John Ashbery's poem recommends the principle of unrequited love or desire. It seems like the poem in concern is a reflection of the speaker's sensations towards someone they wish to be with or have a relationship with but can not. The sadness originates from the understanding that the poem, as an expression of the speaker's love, can not satisfy their desire to be with the individual they enjoy. The poem longs for a connection that it can not have, and this longing is what produces the deep unhappiness intrinsic in its words. The quote is a poignant tip that some things can never ever be genuinely ours, in spite of how much we may want them.
This quote is written / told by John Ashbery somewhere between July 28, 1927 and today. He/she was a famous Poet from USA.
The author also have 4 other quotes.
"Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative"
"The heart of the matter seems to me to be the direct interaction between one's making a poem in English and a poem in the language that one understands and values. I don't see how you can do it otherwise"
"The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver a poem that reveals much about the process taken"
"Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them"
"The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion"
