Quote of the day
The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.
Edmund Blunden
Born: November 1, 1896
Died: January 20, 1974 (aged 77)
Bio: Edmund Charles Blunden was an English poet, author and critic. Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, he wrote of his experiences in World War I in both verse and prose.
Known for:
- Undertones of War (1928)
- A Hong Kong house (1959)
- English Villages (1941)
- Fall in, ghosts
- Shelley: A Life Story (1946)