Quote of the day
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.
Donald Davidson
Born: August 8, 1893
Died: April 25, 1968 (aged 74)
Bio: Donald Grady Davidson was a U.S. poet, essayist, social and literary critic, and author. He is best known as a founding member of the Nashville, Tennessee circle of poets known as the Fugitives and of an overlapping group, the Southern Agrarians.
Known for:
- Attack on Leviathan (1938)
- The Big Ballad Jamboree
- Still Rebels, still Yankees (1957)
- The long street
- Poems, 1922-1961 (1966)