“We will open the book. Its
pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is
called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day.” ~ Edith Lovejoy Pierce
Edith Lovejoy Pierce Source: Wikipedia |
Edith
Lovejoy Pierce (1904-1983) was a 20th-century poet and pacifist. Pierce
was born in 1904 in Oxford, England. She married an American in 1929 and moved
to the U.S.the same year. She and her husband lived in Evanston, Illinois. Pierce
was a poet and pacifist whose Christianity informed these two careers. In her
writing she drew inspiration from the Bible, Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy of
nonviolent resistance, music, history, and religious mysticism, among other
sources.
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