Famous Quotes | So that the old joy, modest as...

So that the old joy, modest as cake, as wine and friendship
Will stay with us at the last, backed by the night
Whose ruse gave it our final meaning. - John Ashbery
Attribution: John Ashbery (b. 1927), U.S. poet, critic. “Flowering Death.”

Categories: Critic, Joy, Memory

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