"Don't Quit" (Keeping Going) by Edgar Albert Guest

  

"Don't Quit" (Keep Going)

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,

When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill,

When the funds are low and the debts are high,

And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,

When care is pressing you down a bit,

Rest if you must — but don’t you quit.

 

Life is queer with its twists and turns,

As every one of us sometimes learns,

And many a failure turns about

When he might have won had he stuck it out;

Don’t give up, though the pace seems slow —

You may succeed with another blow.

 

Often the goal is nearer than

It seems to a faint and faltering man,

Often the struggler has given up

When he might have captured the victor’s cup,

And he learned too late, when the night slipped down,

How close he was to the golden crown.

 

Success is failure turned inside out —

The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,

And you never can tell how close you are,

It may be near when it seems afar;

So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit —

It’s when things seem worst that you mustn’t quit.

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Who wrote the poem "Don't Quit"?

Edgar Albert Guest (August 20, 1881 – August 5, 1959)

 Edgar Albert Guest was a British-born American poet who was popular in the first half of the 20th century. He wrote 11,000 poems which were syndicated in 300 newspapers. He became known as the People's Poet because his poems were easy to read and had an inspirational and optimistic view of everyday life with such themes as family, work, children, and God.

The most likely candidate for being the author of "Don't Quit" is Edgar A. Guest. The poem, initially entitled "Keep Going," was first published under the name of Edgar A. Guest in the newspaper, the Detroit Free Press, on March, 1921. As the poem later appeared in many journals in the early 1920's, somehow the title turned into "Don't Quit" (sometimes "Never Quit") and Guest's name vanished with the authorship often incorrectly given to the submitter, causing confusion as to the authorship. Even the poem itself had been modified and handed down from generation to generation. Some sources suggest that the poem was written by John Greeleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 - September 7, 1892), an American Quaker poet and passionate abolitionist.