Quote of the day
This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.
Mirkka Rekola
Born: June 26, 1931
Died: February 5, 2014 (aged 82)
Bio: Mirkka Elina Rekola was a Finnish writer from Tampere who published poems, aphorisms, essays. Her poetry was considered ‘difficult’, thus she gained wide audience as late as in the 1990s. She died in Helsinki in 2014.