Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
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