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.
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)