Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
William Collins
Born: December 25, 1721
Died: June 12, 1759 (aged 37)
Bio: William Collins was an English poet. Second in influence only to Thomas Gray, he was an important poet of the middle decades of the 18th century.