Quote of the day
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
Saint-John Perse
Born: May 31, 1887
Died: September 20, 1975 (aged 88)
Bio: Saint-John Perse was a French poet-diplomat, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960 "for the soaring flight and evocative imagery of his poetry." He was a major French diplomat from 1914 to 1940, after which he lived primarily in the United States until 1967.