“Beauty does not reside in perfection, but in the intensity with which a moment is captured.”
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…