Quote of the day
Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art.
Helen Vendler

Born: April 30, 1933
Died: April 23, 2024 (aged 90)
Bio: Helen Hennessy Vendler was an American academic, writer and literary critic. She was a professor of English language and history at Boston University, Cornell, Harvard, and other universities.
Known for:
- The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar (2015)
- Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form (2007)
- Poets thinking (2004)
- Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire (1984)