Quote of the day
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Keith Douglas
Born: January 24, 1920
Died: June 9, 1944 (aged 24)
Bio: Keith Castellain Douglas was an English poet noted for his war poetry during the Second World War and his wry memoir of the Western Desert campaign, Alamein to Zem Zem. He was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy.
Known for:
- Alamein to Zem Zem
- Carrier
- Complete poems
- A Prose Miscellany
- The letters