"Olympic opening ceremonies are a little like
a Match.com first date…."

— Alessandra Stanley, page D4 of the New York
edition of this morning's print NY Times

The late poet  Rubén Darío, who died on Feb. 6, 1916

"The snow-white Olympic swan 
preens his eucharistic wing"

The late poet Maxine Kumin, who died on Feb. 6, 2014

"They gave me the morning-after pill"