Quote of the day
Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.
Maria Gowen Brooks
Born: 1794
Died: November 11, 1845 (aged 51)
Bio: Maria Gowen Brooks was an American poet. She impressed Edgar Allan Poe and the English Poet Laureate, Robert Southey, who promoted her best-known poem Zophiël.
Known for:
- Zóphiël; or, The bride of seven (1833)
- Zophiel: A Poem, (1825)