Quote of the day
With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Rolfe Humphries

Born: November 20, 1894
Died: April 22, 1969 (aged 74)
Bio: George Rolfe Humphries was a poet, translator, and teacher.
Known for:
- Poets, poetics, and politics
- The summer landscape (1944)
- Forbid thy ravens (1947)
- Coat on a stick (1969)