TWA Poet: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

1809 -1894

It's the birthday of the man who said, "Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. How terrible is the one fact of beauty!" That's 19th-century poet and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (1809).

He ran in the same circles as Ralph Waldo E…