Quote of the day
We cannot suppose therefore that God has made an order of beings, with such mental qualities and powers, for the sole purpose of being used as beasts, or instruments of labour.
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)






