Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Harriet Monroe
Born: December 23, 1860
Died: September 26, 1936 (aged 75)
Bio: Harriet Monroe was an American editor, scholar, literary critic, poet and patron of the arts. She is best known as the founding publisher and long-time editor of Poetry magazine, which made its debut in 1912.
Known for:
- John Wellborn Root
- The New Poetry: An Anthology (1921) (1917)