Ashbery

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    Each act of criticism is general
    But, in cutting itself off from all the others,
    Explicit enough.
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    And we can get back to that raw state
    Of feeling, so long deemed
    Inconsequential and therefore appropriate to our later musings
    About religion, about migrations. What is restored
    Becomes stronger than the loss as it is remembered;
    Is a new, separate life of its own.
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    In the haunted house no quarter is given: in that respect
    It’s very much business as usual. The reductive principle
    Is no longer there, or isn’t enforced as much as before.
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)