Famous Quotes | The past absconds
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The past absconds
With our fortunes just as we were rounding a major
Bend in the swollen river; not to see ahead
Becomes the only predicament when what
Might be sunken there is mentioned only
In crabbed allusions but will be back tomorrow. - John Ashbery
Attribution: John Ashbery (b. 1927), U.S. poet, critic. “A Wave.”

Categories: Critic, Past, The, Time

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