Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
James Phinney Baxter III

Born: February 15, 1893
Died: June 17, 1975 (aged 82)
Bio: James Phinney Baxter III was an American historian, educator, and academic, who won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Scientists Against Time. He was also the author of The Introduction of the Ironclad Warship.