Quote of the day
Here I am, in Quaker surroundings, whose restful simplicity is most congenial to me. I feel here the earnest desire for genuine growth and culture which founds a slow but sure success. I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.
A. R. Ammons
Born: February 18, 1926
Died: February 25, 2001 (aged 75)
Bio: Archie Randolph Ammons was an American poet who won the annual National Book Award for Poetry in 1973 and 1993.
Known for:
- Tape for the turn of the year (1965)
- A Coast of Trees (1981)
- Ommateum: With Doxology (1955)
- Sphere (1974)
- The snow poems (1977)