Quote of the day
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
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)