With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Bio: Michael Anthony Nutter is an American politician who was the 98th and former Mayor of Philadelphia. Elected on November 6, 2007, he was reelected to a second term on November 8, 2011.
