Quote of the day
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Jules Laforgue
Born: August 16, 1860
Died: August 20, 1887 (aged 27)
Bio: Jules Laforgue was a Franco-Uruguayan poet, often referred to as a Symbolist poet. Critics and commentators have also pointed to Impressionism as a direct influence and his poetry has been called "part-symbolist, part-impressionist".
Known for:
- Moral Tales
- Poems of Jules Laforgue
- Jules Laforgue Selected Poems
- Patrick Caulfield
- Essential Poems and Prose of Jules Laforgue