Quote of the day
It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot.
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)







