Quote of the day
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
Jose Garcia Villa
Born: August 5, 1908
Died: February 7, 1997 (aged 88)
Bio: Jose Garcia Villa was a Filipino poet, literary critic, short story writer, and painter. He was awarded the National Artist of the Philippines title for literature in 1973, as well as the Guggenheim Fellowship in creative writing by Conrad Aiken.
Known for:
- The anchored angel
- Doveglion
- Charlie Chan Is Dead (1993)
- Appasionata: Poems in Praise of Love (1979)
- Selected Poems and New (1958)








