Quote of the day
One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.
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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