Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Hayden Carruth

Born: August 3, 1921
Died: September 29, 2008 (aged 87)
Bio: Hayden Carruth was an American poet and literary critic. He taught at Syracuse University.
Known for:
- Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey (1996)
- Collected shorter poems, 1946-1991 (1992)
- Toward the distant islands (2006)
- From snow and rock, from chaos (1973)