Quote of the day
I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.
Arthur Waley

Born: August 19, 1889
Died: June 27, 1966 (aged 76)
Bio: Arthur David Waley was an English Orientalist and sinologist who achieved both popular and scholarly acclaim for his translations of Chinese and Japanese poetry.
Known for:
- Monkey (1942)
- Three ways of thought in ancient China (1939)
- The No Plays of Japan (1921)
- The Secret History of the Mongols
- More Translations from the Chinese (1919)







