Quote of the Day (Phyllis McGinley, on November, ‘Spinster of the Year’)

“Away with vanity of man.

  Now comes to visit here

The Maiden Aunt, the Puritan,

  The Spinster of the year.”—Phyllis McGinley (1905-1978), “November,” in The Four Seasons: Poems, edited by J.D. McClatchy (Everyman’s Library, 2008)