Quote of the day
It is unjust and absurd of those advancing in years, to expect of the young that confidence should come all and only on their side: the human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
Mark Van Doren
Born: June 13, 1894
Died: December 10, 1972 (aged 78)
Known for:
- The Poetry of John Dryden
- Shakespeare
- The last days of Lincoln
- Henry David Thoreau (1972)
- Essays of Mark Van Doren