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They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies.
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)






