That taking is but the forerunner of giving I believe in the purpose of everything living, That roses that blossom and toilers that plodĪre filled with the glorious spirit of God. That lead us to beauty and singing and smiles That days are but footsteps and years are but miles
That most of the hearts beating round us are tender I believe in the world and its bigness and splendor, Guest (In the Detroit Free Press), Quote, Column 4, Boston, Massachusetts. Emphasis added to excerpts by QI: 1915 August 19, The Boston Globe, Poem: Faith by Edgar A. The popular poet Edgar Guest included a similar statement in a widely distributed 1915 poem called “Faith”.
Quote Investigator: QI has been unable to find substantive support for the linkage to Yeats.
There are no strangers here only friends you haven’t yet met. Wegner? Roberta Lieberman? Mitch Albom? Anonymous?ĭear Quote Investigator: The Nobel Prize winning Irish poet William Butler Yeats often receives credit for the following sentiment: William Butler Yeats? Will Rogers? Edgar Guest? Margaret Lee Runbeck? Dorothy C.
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