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.
Zabel Yesayan
Born: February 4, 1878
Died: 1943 (aged 64)
Bio: Zabel Yesayan was an Ottoman Armenian novelist, translator, and professor of literature.