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.
Thomas Anthony Dooley III
Born: January 17, 1927
Died: January 18, 1961 (aged 34)
Bio: Thomas Anthony Dooley III was an American physician and humanitarian who worked in Laos and Vietnam.
Known for:
- The Night They Burned the Mountain (1960)
- Deliver us from evil (1956)
- Trespass: Poems
- The True Story of Noah's Ark