Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Gertrude Himmelfarb

Born: August 8, 1922
Died: December 30, 2019 (aged 97)
Bio: Gertrude Himmelfarb, also known as Bea Kristol, was an American historian. She was a leader of conservative interpretations of history and historiography.
Known for:
- The de-moralization of society (1995)
- The moral imagination (2006)
- The new history and the old (1987)
- On Looking Into the Abyss (1994)