Quote of the day
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
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