Quotes from the World for Wednesday 10/23/MXIII

So we may never
Again feel fully confident of the stratagem that bore us
And lived on a certain time after that. And it went away
Little by little, as most things do. To profit
By this mainstream is today’s chore and adventure.

John Ashbery
John Ashbery (b. 1927), U.S. poet, critic. “Something Similar.”