Quote of the day
We must have religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, as with art for art's sake…the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.
Marvin Bell

Born: August 3, 1937
Died: December 14, 2020 (aged 83)
Bio: Marvin Bell was an American poet and teacher who was the first Poet Laureate of the state of Iowa.
Known for:
- The book of the dead man (1994)
- Nightworks (2000)
- Stars which see, stars which do not see (1977)
- Mars Being Red (2007)
- Vertigo: The Living Dead Man Poems (2011)






