Quote of the day
We must have religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, as with art for art's sake…the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
Gertrud von Le Fort

Born: October 11, 1876
Died: November 1, 1971 (aged 95)
Bio: The Baroness Gertrud von Le Fort was a German writer of novels, poems and essays.
Known for:
- The song at the scaffold (1933)
- The eternal woman
- The Wife of Pilate and Other Stories
- Hymns to the Church
- The Veil of Veronica






