“I learned how much braver the woman has to be than the man.” — Edgar A. Guest | V2Melody

“I learned how much braver the woman has to be than the man.”

Reflecting on the different burdens of grief he observed within domestic life · Prose memoir, Making the House a Home, 1922

About Edgar A. Guest

Edgar A. Guest

20 August 1881–5 August 1959

Edgar Albert Guest was born in Birmingham, England, on 20 August 1881, and died in Detroit, Michigan, on 5 August 1959, fifteen days before his seventy-eighth birthday. During much of his long life, he was among the most familiar poets in the United States. His name appeared daily in newspapers, his verses were…

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“If anybody'd give me a new idea, I'd kiss 'em.”

A humorous admission of the strain of producing verse at an extraordinary rate · Interview quoted in Time, 1951

“There is always a way out of the difficulties. Even though we cannot see or guess what that way is to be, it will be provided.”

Expressing trust that unseen possibilities remain during hardship · Autobiographical essay, Making the House a Home, 1922

Faith
Hope

“But a home cannot be builded always on happiness.”

Acknowledging that shared sorrow also deepens belonging · Autobiographical essay, Making the House a Home, 1922