Quote of the day
By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans serving on Iwo island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
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)