The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
"James Oppenheim" (1882–1932), was an United States/American poet, novelist, and editor. A lay analyst and early follower of C. G. Jung, Oppenheim was also the founder and editor of The Seven Arts, an important early 20th-century literary magazine.
He was a well-known writer of short stories and novels. His poetry followed Walt Whitman's model of free verse ruminations on "social and democratic aspects of life". Oppenheim depicted labor troubles with Fabian Society/Fabian and suffragist themes in his novel, The Nine-Tenths (1911) and in his famous poem Bread and Roses (1911). The slogan Bread and Roses is now commonly associated with the pivotal 1912 Lawrence textile strike/textile workers' strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts/Lawrence, Massachusetts. The poem was later set to music in 1976 by Mimi FariƱa and again in 1990 by John Denver.
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