Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Charles Bean
Born: November 18, 1879
Died: August 30, 1968 (aged 88)
Bio: Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean, usually identified as C.E.W. Bean, was an Australian World War 1 war correspondent and historian.
Known for:
- Anzac to Amiens (1946)
- Bean's Gallipoli
- Letters from France (1917)