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 Raban
Born: June 14, 1942
Died: January 17, 2023 (aged 80)
Bio: Jonathan Raban was a British travel writer and novelist.
Known for:
- Passage to Juneau: A Sea and Its Meanings (1999)
- Bad Land: An American Romance (1996)
- Old Glory: An American Voyage (1981)
- Soft City (1974)