Quote of the day
At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
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)