Quote of the day
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
Michael Hamburger

Born: March 22, 1924
Died: June 7, 2007 (aged 83)
Bio: Michael Hamburger was a noted British translator, poet, critic, memoirist and academic. He was known in particular for his translations of Friedrich Hölderlin, Paul Celan, Gottfried Benn and W. G.
Known for:
- Poems of Paul Celan
- The truth of poetry (1968)
- Beethoven Letters Journals and Conversations
- String of Beginnings (1991)