Famous Quotes | But there are no fractions, the...

But there are no fractions, the world is an integer
Like us, and like us it can neither stand wholly apart nor disappear.
When one is young it seems like a very strange and safe place,
But now that I have changed it feels merely odd, cold
And full of interest.
- John Ashbery
Attribution: John Ashbery (b. 1927), U.S. poet, critic. “A Wave.”

Categories: Age And Aging, Critic, World, The

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