How many times have you been on the freeway and had someone fly by you at 100 mph then end up two cars ahead of you at the off ramp? What's the point?
I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.
| Kris Allen, Musician (1985) |
| Ferdinand Christian Baur, Theologian (1792) |
| Meredith Baxter, Actress (1947) |
| Ray Davies, Musician (1944) |
| Shirin Ebadi, Lawyer (1947) |
| Conrad Hall, Artist (1926) |
| Richard Jefferson, Athlete (1980) |
| Rockwell Kent, Artist (1882) |
| Nicole Kidman, Actress (1967) |
| Al Campanis, Businessman (1998) |
| Johann Georg Hamann, Philosopher (1788) |

