Quote of the day
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
Stephen Spender
Born: February 28, 1909
Died: July 16, 1995 (aged 86)
Bio: Sir Stephen Harold Spender was an English poet, novelist and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work.
Known for:
- World within world (1951)
- The Temple (1988)
- New Selected Journals, 1939-1995
- The struggle of the modern (1963)
- Trial of a judge (1938)
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