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Edgar Lee Masters Quotes

Edgar Lee Masters quotes

American Poet August 23, 1868 – March 5, 1950

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I have studied many times The marble which was chiseled for me— A boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor. In truth it pictures not my destination But my life. For love was offered me and I shrank from its disillusionment; Sorrow knocked at my door, but I was afraid; Ambition called to me, but I dreaded the chances. Yet all the while I hungered for meaning in my life. And now I know that we must lift the sail And catch the winds of destiny Wherever they drive the boat. To put meaning in... Edgar Lee Masters
What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness, Anger, discontent and drooping hopes? Degenerate sons and daughters, Life is too strong for yo? It takes life to love Life. Edgar Lee Masters
Edgar Lee Masters quote: "It takes life to love life."
It takes life to love life. Edgar Lee Masters
The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, why fiddle you must, for all your life. Edgar Lee Masters
Edgar Lee Masters quote: "There is no marriage in Heaven, but there is love."
There is no marriage in Heaven, but there is love. Edgar Lee Masters
Edgar Lee Masters quote: "The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished; And what is..."
The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished; And what is love but a rose that fades? Edgar Lee Masters
And I never started to plow in my life That some one did not stop in the road And take me away to a dance or picnic. I ended up with forty acres; I ended up with a broken fiddle— And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories, And not a single regret. Edgar Lee Masters
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid. Edgar Lee Masters
Edgar Lee Masters quote: "How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?"
How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived? Edgar Lee Masters
Henry got me with child, Knowing that I could not bring forth life. Without losing my own. In my youth therefore I entered the portals of dust. Edgar Lee Masters
My name used to be in the papers daily. As having dined somewhere, Or traveled somewhere, Or rented a house in Paris, Where I entertained the nobility. I was forever eating or traveling, Or taking the cure at Baden-Baden. Now I am here to do honor. To Spoon River, here beside the family whence I sprang. No one cares now where I dined, Or lived, or whom I entertained, Or how often I took the cure at Baden-Baden! Edgar Lee Masters
Edgar Lee Masters quote: "To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of..."
To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty. Edgar Lee Masters
Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected. Edgar Lee Masters
I tramped through the country. To get the feeling. That I was not a separate thing from the earth. I used to lose myself. By lying with eyes half-open in the woods. Sometimes I talked with animal? Edgar Lee Masters
Edgar Lee Masters quote: "In time you shall see Fate approach you. In the shape of your..."
In time you shall see Fate approach you. In the shape of your own image in the mirror. Edgar Lee Masters

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