Pearl Buck is one of my favorite authors. She recieved the Pulitzert prize in 1932 for The Good Earth. I am reading this book now, along with her biography.
I wanted to share with you a quote from her book entitled My Mother's House.
" What I inherited from my mother is inside me. I love people too easily, as she did. But then my first memory is of love. To be able to think back, as I can, to feel one's way back to the first moment of the new life outside the womb, and to remember as I do, nothing but love, overwhelming love, provides the atmoshpere for one's whole life. So loved for one's self, one loves in return, easily and richly-and sometimes too often or faithfully. For this gift of loving, I thank my beloved mother."
This is a poem Pearl Buck wrote during the latter part of her life.
"Essence"
I give you the books I've made.
Body and soul, bled and flayed.
Yet the essence they contain
In one poem is made plain,
In one poem is made clear:
On this earth, though far or near,
Without love there's only fear.
by Pearl Buck
Hope you have a good day!
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