Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Burton Raffel

Born: April 27, 1928
Died: September 29, 2015 (aged 87)
Bio: Burton Nathan Raffel was a translator, a poet and a teacher. He translated many poems, including the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf, poems by Horace, and Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais. In 1964, Raffel recorded an album along with Robert P.
Known for:
- The art of translating prose (1988)
- How to Read a Poem (1984)
- The Annotated Milton (2008)
- The development of modern Indonesian poetry (1967)