Quote of the day
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.
Michel de Certeau

Born: May 17, 1925
Died: January 10, 1986 (aged 60)
Bio: Michel de Certeau was a French Jesuit and scholar whose work combined history, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the social sciences.
Known for:
- The Practice of Everyday Life (1984)
- The Writing of History
- The mystic fable
- Heterologies (1986)
- The possession at Loudun