Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Albert Goldbarth

Born: January 31, 1948 (age 77)
Bio: Albert Goldbarth is an American poet. He has won the National Book Critics Circle award for "Saving Lives" and "Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology", the only poet to receive the honor two times.
Known for:
- The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems (2007)
- Heaven and earth (1991)
- Budget travel through space and time (2005)
- To Be Read in 500 Years: Poems (2009)
- Pieces of Payne (2003)