Eunice Tietjens — a remark

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“Poetry is a living thing. I am not alone in the world today, nor am I touched by the sun. Poetry is alive.”

Expressing her awakening to poetry as a vital force rather than something confined to books · Memoir, The World at My Shoulder, 1938

About Eunice Tietjens

Eunice Tietjens

29 July 1884–6 September 1944

Eunice Tietjens was born in Chicago, Illinois, on 29 July 1884, into a city whose energy, contradictions, and cultural ambitions would shape the rest of her life. She died in the same city on 6 September 1944, after a career that had carried her across the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. During those…

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