Quote of the day
I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that you call a Gentleman and is nothing else.
Giuseppe Ungaretti
Born: February 8, 1888
Died: June 2, 1970 (aged 82)
Bio: Giuseppe Ungaretti was an Italian modernist poet, journalist, essayist, critic, academic, and recipient of the inaugural 1970 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.