Quote of the day
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Miller Williams
Born: April 8, 1930
Died: January 1, 2015 (aged 84)
Bio: Stanley Miller Williams was an American contemporary poet, as well as a translator and editor. He produced over 25 books and won several awards for his poetry. His accomplishments were chronicled in Arkansas Biography.
Known for:
- Some jazz a while (1999)
- Patterns of poetry (1986)
- Time and the tilting earth (2008)
- The ways we touch (1997)
- Making a Poem (2006)