“If there be laughter in your heart Don't hold it for tomorrow.”

— Edgar A. Guest, "A Song", A Heap o' Livin', 1916, p. 34

About Edgar A. Guest

1881 – 1959

English-born American poet, known as the "People's Poet".

“He started to sing as he tackled the thing that couldn't be done, and he did it.”

“Life must be what we make of it.”

“Whate'er my task, be this my creed: I am on earth to fill a need.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“Give all to love; obey thy heart.”

“Wit is cultured insolence.”

“What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.”

“The spiritualization of sensuality is called love.”

“There is not love of life without despair about life.”