Quote of the day
Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.
John Haines

Born: June 29, 1924
Died: March 2, 2011 (aged 86)
Bio: John Meade Haines was an American poet and educator who had served as the poet laureate of Alaska.
Known for:
- The stars, the snow, the fire (1989)
- The owl in the mask of the dreamer (1993)
- At the end of this summer (1997)
- Fables and distances (1996)
- For the century's end (2001)






