Quote of the day
Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse.
Philip Levine
Born: January 10, 1928
Died: February 14, 2015 (aged 87)
Bio: Philip Levine was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet best known for his poems about working-class Detroit.
Known for:
- What Work Is (1991)
- The Simple Truth (1993)
- They feed they lion (1972)
- Not This Pig: Poems (1968)
- A walk with Tom Jefferson (1988)