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.
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)