Quote of the day
We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.
Mona Van Duyn
Born: May 9, 1921
Died: December 2, 2004 (aged 83)
Bio: Mona Jane Van Duyn was an American poet. She won every major American award for poetry and was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1992.
Known for:
- Near Changes (1990)
- A time of bees (1964)
- If it be not I (1993)
- Firefall (1993)
- Selected Poems (2002)