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.
Anthony Shadid
Born: September 26, 1968
Died: February 16, 2012 (aged 43)
Bio: Anthony Shadid was a foreign correspondent for The New York Times based in Baghdad and Beirut. He won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting twice, in 2004 and 2010.
Known for:
- Night Draws Near (2005)
- Legacy of the Prophet (2001)
- Ordinary Lives (2009)