Quote of the day
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
Stanley Kunitz
Born: July 29, 1905
Died: May 14, 2006 (aged 100)
Bio: Stanley Jasspon Kunitz was an American poet. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress twice, first in 1974 and then again in 2000.
Known for:
- The Wild Braid (2005)
- Passing Through: The Later Poems (1995)
- The Collected Poems (2000)
- The Wellfleet Whale and Companion Poems (1983)
- British authors of the nineteenth century (1936)