Rossetti, stoned again

Italian painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born on this day in 1828. He wrote:

The hour when you learn that all is vain
And that Hope sows what Love shall never reap.

Have a heart, man

The world's first successful heart transplant was performed on this date in 1968.

"A man's heart is a grave long before he is buried. Youth dies, and beauty, and hope, and desire." -- Eric Hoffer.