Background
- Born in
- New York City
- Educated at
- Harvard UniversityAmherst CollegeMontclair High School
- Awards
- 🏆 National Book Award🏆 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize🏆 Robert Frost Medal🏆 United States Poet Laureate🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"In each art the difficulty of the form is a substitution for the difficulty of direct apprehension and expression of the object. The first difficulty may be more or less overcome, but the second is in…"
"It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congress of persons who dwell at the back of his mind, a congress of all those who have taught him and who…"
"When a poet is being a poet — that is, when he is writing or thinking about writing — he cannot be concerned with anything but the making of a poem. If the poem is to turn out well, the poet cannot ha…"
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Timeline
1921
Born
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Died
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