Quote of the day
Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert Fitzgerald
Born: October 12, 1910
Died: January 16, 1985 (aged 74)
Bio: Robert Stuart Fitzgerald was an American poet, critic and translator whose renderings of the Greek classics "became standard works for a generation of scholars and students." He was best known as a translator of ancient Greek and Latin.
Known for:
- Spring shade; poems, 1931-1970 (1971)
- The third kind of knowledge
- In the Rose of Time (1956)
- Mediterranean Style