Quote of the day
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
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)