Quote of the day
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Charles G. D. Roberts
Born: January 10, 1860
Died: November 26, 1943 (aged 83)
Bio: Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts was a Canadian poet and prose writer who is known as the Father of Canadian Poetry.
Known for:
- The kindred of the wild (1902)
- The Heart Of The Ancient Wood (1900)
- Orion, and other poems (1880)
- Hoof and claw (1913)
- Earth's Enigmas (1903)