Quote of the day
It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for if he reiterates it frequently enough and makes it the background of his conduct he is bound eventually to be right.
Arthur Davison Ficke

Born: November 10, 1883
Died: November 30, 1945 (aged 62)
Bio: Arthur Davison Ficke was an American poet, playwright, and expert of Japanese art. Ficke had a national reputation as "a poet's poet", and "one of America's most expert sonneteers". Under the alias Anne Knish, Ficke co-authored Spectra.
Known for:
- Chats on Japanese Prints (1915)
- Spectra
- Sonnets of a portrait-painter (1914)
- Mr. Faust (1913)
- The Man on the Hilltop: And Other Poems (1915)






