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.
Sony Labou Tansi
Born: July 5, 1947
Died: June 14, 1995 (aged 47)
Bio: Sony Lab'ou Tansi, born Marcel Ntsoni, was a Congolese novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and poet.
Known for:
- Life and a Half
- The antipeople (1988)
- The Seven Solitudes of Lorsa Lopez (1995)
- The Shameful State
- Parentheses of blood (1985)