Edgar A. Guest — a remark

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“It sounds preachy, I know, to say that all buildings depend for their real beauty upon the spirit of the people who inhabit them. But it is true.”

Locating the beauty of a home in its inhabitants rather than its architecture or possessions · 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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