Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
R. P. Blackmur

Born: January 21, 1904
Died: February 2, 1965 (aged 61)
Bio: Richard Palmer Blackmur was an American literary critic and poet.
Known for:
- Language as gesture (1952)
- Studies in Henry James
- Poems of R. P. Blackmur
- Selected essays of R.P. Blackmur
- The lion and the honeycomb (1956)