Quote of the day
All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
James Tate
Born: December 8, 1943
Died: July 8, 2015 (aged 71)
Bio: James Vincent Tate was an American poet whose work earned him the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He was a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Known for:
- Dreams of a robot dancing bee (2002)
- A Worshipful Company of Fletchers (1994)
- Return to the city of white donkeys (2004)
- Shroud of the gnome (1997)
- Distance from loved ones (1990)