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.
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