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.
John Ashbery
Born: July 28, 1927
Died: September 3, 2017 (aged 90)
Bio: John Lawrence Ashbery was an American poet. He has published more than twenty volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.
Known for:
- Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975)
- Where Shall I Wander (2005)
- Flow Chart (1991)
- Houseboat Days (1957)
- A Worldly Country (2007)
John Ashbery Quotes