Once in a golden hour,
I cast to earth a seed,
And up there grew a flower,
That others called a weed.
Alfred Lord Tennyson, born on 6 August 1809, Sun in Leo, Moon and Ascendant in Gemini, English poet.
Other personalities born today:
Andy Warhol, born on 6 August 1928, Sun in Leo, Moon in Aries, Ascendant in Leo,
I never fall apart, because I never fall together.
Diane di Prima (5.4.9) (August 6, 1934) American poet, artist, prose writer, memoirist, playwright, social justice activist, fat acceptance activist and teacher. She wrote a fictionalized, erotic account detailing her experience in the Beat movement titled Memoirs of a Beatnik.