“To see the world truly, one must first learn to look past the illusions of one's own desires.”
About Arthur Davison Ficke
10 November 1883–30 November 1945
Arthur Davison Ficke was born in Davenport, Iowa, on 10 November 1883, at a moment when the United States was rapidly becoming both an industrial power and a more self-conscious literary nation. He died on 30 November 1945, at the age of sixty-two, leaving a body of poetry that can seem difficult to classify neatly…