"And so love goes.
And so life goes.
And so I go."

-- Neal Cassady

"3,000 books line the walls of my house. They define me; they remind me I thought this, was interested in that; they reassure me. Occasionally I shed a few books, but to get rid of many of them would be like discarding part of my mind."

Penelope Lively:

https://unherd.com/2023/02/the-books-that-made-me-2/

This must be one of John Ashbery’s shortest poems, and I’m not sure why he felt the need to write any others — this one sort of says it all