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.
Walter J. Ong

Born: November 30, 1912
Died: August 12, 2003 (aged 90)
Bio: Walter Jackson Ong was an American Jesuit priest, professor of English literature, cultural and religious historian and philosopher.
Known for:
- Orality and literacy (1982)
- Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue (1958)
- The presence of the word (1967)
- Interfaces of the Word (1977)
- Rhetoric, romance, and technology (1971)