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.
Gregory Rabassa

Born: March 9, 1922
Died: June 14, 2016 (aged 94)
Bio: Gregory Rabassa, ComM was an American literary translator from Spanish and Portuguese to English. He taught for many years at Columbia University and Queens College.