Quotation from Katharine Hepburn on Regrets

     On this day in 2003, according to the Associated Press, "actress Katharine Hepburn died in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, at age 96."
     Today the Associated Press quotes Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003) as saying, "I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid."

Katharine Hepburn

American actress

"I Sing the Body Electric" by Walt Whitman

Read this classic poem: I Sing the Body Electric by Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

American poet

"Che Fece . . . Il Gran Rifiuto" by C. P. Cavafy

Read the poem "Che Fece . . . Il Gran Rifiuto" ("That he made . . . The Great Refusal") by Greek poet C. P. Cavafy, 1863-1933. To read that poem, click here.

Constantine P. Cavafy, 1863-1933
Greek poet

Lawrence Ferlinghetti reads his poem "Pity the Nation"