Quote of the day
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Robert Hayden
Born: August 4, 1913
Died: February 25, 1980 (aged 66)
Bio: Robert Hayden was an American poet, essayist, educator. He served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1976 78, a role today known as US Poet Laureate. He was the first African-American writer to hold the office.
Known for:
- Angle of ascent (1975)
- Collected Poems
- Words in the mourning time (1970)