Quote of the day
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Juan Ramón Jiménez
Born: December 24, 1881
Died: May 29, 1958 (aged 76)
Bio: Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón was a Spanish poet, a prolific writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956 "for his lyrical poetry, which in the Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistical purity".
Known for:
- Platero and I (1917)
- The Complete Perfectionist
- Light and Shadows: Selected Poems and Prose
- The Poet and the Sea
- Selected Writings (1957)