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.
Modris Eksteins

Born: 1943 (age 82)
Bio: Modris Eksteins is a Canadian historian with a special interest in German history and modern culture.
Known for:
- Rites of Spring (1989)
- Solar Dance (2012)
- Walking Since Daybreak (1999)
- The limits of reason (1975)
- Nineteenth-Century Germany (1983)