Quote of the day
I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.
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)