Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
William Cullen Bryant
Born: November 3, 1794
Died: June 12, 1878 (aged 83)
Bio: William Cullen Bryant was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post.
Known for:
- Thanatopsis
- Poems, by William Cullen Bryant (1849)
- Picturesque America
- A Forest Hymn (1824)
- The poetical works of William Cullen Bryant (1853)
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