Quote of the day
Never Write an Advertisement Which You Wouldn't Want Your Own Family To Read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by.
Erich Fried
Born: May 6, 1921
Died: November 22, 1988 (aged 67)
Bio: Erich Fried was an Austrian-born poet, writer and translator. He initially became known to a broader public in both Germany and Austria for his political poetry, and later for his love poems. As a writer he mostly wrote plays and short novels.
Known for:
- Love poems
- 100 Poems Without a Country (1978)
- Children and Fools
- Ein Soldat und ein Mädchen (1960)
- Um Klarheit. Gedichte gegen das Vergessen (1985)







