26 September

Born in 1862, Arthur B. Davies, American artist.

Above: Elysian Fields, date unknown

Also, born in 1889 – Martin Heidegger, German philosopher.

To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive gods. This is why the poet in the time of the world’s night utters the holy.

Previously on September 26, Lewis Hine and T. S. Eliot.