News at Eleven: No one can prove that [John] Ashbery's

poems mean anything. But no one can prove that your life means anything, either: on a good day, you feel able to keep on living it, as John Ashbery has kept on writing, following a plan where a plan seems to fit, but otherwise making it up as you go.

from The Times Literary Supplement: John Ashbery, a poet for our times

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