Quote of the day
The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Philip Whalen
Born: October 20, 1923
Died: June 26, 2002 (aged 78)
Bio: Philip Glenn Whalen was an American poet, Zen Buddhist, and a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance and close to the Beat generation.
Known for:
- Overtime: Selected Poems (1999)
- Canoeing up Cabarga Creek (1996)
- Like I Say: Poems (1960)
- Lady Susan the Watsons
- On Bear's Head (1969)
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