Quote of the day
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Hugh MacDiarmid

Born: August 11, 1892
Died: September 9, 1978 (aged 86)
Bio: Christopher Murray Grieve, known by his pen name Hugh MacDiarmid, was a Scottish poet, journalist, essayist and political figure.
Known for:
- A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1926)
- Complete poems
- Selected poetry
- Scottish eccentrics (1936)
- Contemporary Scottish studies (1926)