The sediments of the past are many miles in collective thickness: yet the feeble silt of the rivers built them all from base to summit.
Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.
Eden Ahbez, Musician (1908) |
Claudia Cardinale, Actress (1938) |
Bliss Carman, Poet (1861) |
Joe Davis, Celebrity (1901) |
Dave Edmunds, Musician (1944) |
Leonhard Euler, Mathematician (1707) |
Luke Evans, Actor (1979) |
Eva Figes, (1932) |
Jay Garner, Soldier (1938) |
Henry James, Writer (1843) |
Simon Dach, Poet (1659) |
William Empson, Poet (1984) |
Oliver Evans, Inventor (1819) |
Greta Garbo, Actress (1990) |
Jean Genet, Dramatist (1986) |
Abraham Lincoln, President (1865) |