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.
John Senior
Born: March 23, 1960 (age 65)
Bio: John Senior was an American Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Classics, teaching at Bard and Hofstra Colleges, the Universities of Wyoming and Kansas, and Cornell. He co-founded the Integrated Humanities Program at Kansas.
Known for:
- The restoration of Christian culture (1983)
- The death of Christian culture (1978)
- Last of the Day-Hole Miners (1997)
- Marie & Pierre Curie (1998)