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.
Jonathan M. Sewall

Born: 1748
Died: March 29, 1808 (aged 60)
Bio: Jonathan Mitchell Sewall was a lawyer and poet who achieved some notability, published as Jonathan M. Sewall.