Quote of the day
If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.
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)