Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
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)