Image shown: Amelia Earhart with her first plane, a Kinner Airster open-cockpit biplane (photographed in about 1921).
Courage
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace,
The soul that knows it not
Knows no release from little things:
Knows not the livid loneliness of fear,
Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear
The sound of wings.
How can Life grant us boon of living, compensate
For dull gray ugliness and pregnant hate
Unless we dare.
The soul’s dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay
With courage to behold the resistless day,
And count it fair.
By Amelia Earhart (1927)
Amelia Mary Earhart was born on 24 July 1897 in Atchinson, Kansas, United States of America. She became an aviator, a writer, and a poet. One of the most courageous people of her generation, she made history in 1932 as the first woman to complete a solo flight over the Atlantic Ocean, traveling from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland to Ireland in about fifteen hours. Amelia Mary Earhart went missing in July 1937 while attempting an around-the-world flight following the equator, which began with a take-off from the island of New Guinea.
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace,
The soul that knows it not
Knows no release from little things:
Knows not the livid loneliness of fear,
Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear
The sound of wings.
How can Life grant us boon of living, compensate
For dull gray ugliness and pregnant hate
Unless we dare.
The soul’s dominion? Each time we make a choice, we pay
With courage to behold the resistless day,
And count it fair.
By Amelia Earhart (1927)
Amelia Mary Earhart was born on 24 July 1897 in Atchinson, Kansas, United States of America. She became an aviator, a writer, and a poet. One of the most courageous people of her generation, she made history in 1932 as the first woman to complete a solo flight over the Atlantic Ocean, traveling from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland to Ireland in about fifteen hours. Amelia Mary Earhart went missing in July 1937 while attempting an around-the-world flight following the equator, which began with a take-off from the island of New Guinea.
