Quote of the day
The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.
W. D. Snodgrass

Born: January 5, 1926
Died: January 13, 2009 (aged 83)
Bio: William De Witt Snodgrass was an American poet who also wrote under the pseudonym S. S. Gardons. He won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Known for:
- Heart's Needle (1959)
- De/Compositions: 101 Good Poems Gone Wrong (2001)
- Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems (2006)
- Each in His Season: Poems (1993)
- To Sound Like Yourself: Essays on Poetry (2002)