THE ARTIST'S LOUNGE

Friday, January 17, 2025

TRUMBULL STICKNEY

Promising poet who died young.

Born in Geneva, Switzerland on June 20, 1874

Struggling to reconcile his academic and literary passions

First American to win the Doctorat es Letters from the Sorbonne

Died October 11, 1904 from a brain tumor

POEM

The Passions that Fought with and Subdued

The passions that we fought with and subdued

Never quite die. In some maimed serpent's coil

They lurk, ready to spring and vindicate

That power was once our torture and our lord.

Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.

~Paul J. Meyer, Businessman