26 September

Born in 1874 – Lewis Hine, American photographer.

Above: Icarus, Empire State Building, 1930

Also, born in 1888, the English poet T. S. Eliot.

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

― from “The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism”