Ocupation: Poet
Life: January 3, 1886 - May 10, 1950
Birthday: January 3
Death: May 10
Fate! Fate! All things pass away; Life is forever, youth is for a day. Love again if you may Before the stars are blown out of the sky And the crickets die; Babylon and Samarkand Are mud walls in a waste of sand.
source: John Gould Fletcher, Lucas Carpenter, Leighton Rudolph (1988). “Selected Poems of John Gould Fletcher”, p.172, University of Arkansas Press
topic: Life, Stars, Wall, Samarkand, Babylon