Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
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)