Quote of the day
Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
John Hewitt
Born: October 28, 1907
Died: June 22, 1987 (aged 79)
Bio: John Harold Hewitt, who was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, was the most significant Belfast poet to emerge before the 1960s generation of Northern Irish poets that included Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon and Michael Longley.