John Masefield Quotes

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Birth Boat Children Death Earth Giving Gold

I hold that when a person dies / His soul returns again to earth; / Arrayed in some new flesh disguise / Another mother gives him birth / With sturdier limbs and brighter brain.

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Mother, Giving, Soul

John Masefield, Donald Elwin Stanford (1984). “Selected poems”, Carcanet Press

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Love is a flame to set the will on fire

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Love, Love Is, Fire

John Masefield (1922). “The Poems and Plays of John Masefield: Poems”

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I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

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Lonely, Stars, Sea

"Sea Fever" l. 1 (1902).

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Humans consist of body, mind and imagination. Our bodies are faulty, our minds untrustworthy, but our imagination has made us remarkable.

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Art, Imagination, Mind

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To most of us the future seems unsure. But then it always has been; and we who have seen great changes must have great hopes.

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Life, Great Change, Has Beens

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The days that make us happy make us wise

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Happiness, Wise

John Masefield, Peter Vansittart (1984). “John Masefield's letters from the front, 1915-1917”, Constable & Company Limited

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I have seen flowers come in stony places
And kind things done by men with ugly faces,
And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races,
So I trust, too.

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Horse, Flower, Men

John Masefield, Peter Vansittart (1984). “John Masefield's letters from the front, 1915-1917”, Constable & Company Limited

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The three foundations of judgement: Bold Design, Constant Practice, and Frequent Mistakes.

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Mistake, Practice, Design

John Masefield, Audrey Napier-Smith, William Buchan (1983). “Letters to Reyna”, London : Buchan & Enright

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God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze, It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun, And light the wandering out of stony ways.

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Spring, Light, Sun

John Masefield (1923). “The Collected Poems”

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Success is the brand on the brow of the man who aimed too low.

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Success, Leadership, Men

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His face was filled with broken commandments.

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Sarcastic, Broken, Faces

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There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

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Beautiful, Hate, Ignorance

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In the power and splendor of the universe, inspiration waits for the millions to come. Man has only to strive for it. Poems greater than the Iliad, plays greater than Macbeth, stories more engaging than Don Quixote await their seeker and finder.

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Inspiration, Men, Play

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People who leave their own time out of their work cannot be surprised if their time fails to find them interesting.

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Time, People, Interesting

John Masefield (1925). “With the Living Voice: An Address by John Masefield, Given at the First General Meeting of the Scottish Association for the Speaking of Verse, 24th October, 1924”

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Life is a long headache in a noisy street.

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Life, Long, Headache

John Masefield (1923). “The Collected Poems”

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Life, a beauty chased by tragic laughter.

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Laughter, Laughing, Tragic

John Masefield (1923). “The Collected Poems”

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All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.

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Stars, Sea, Sailing

John Masefield, “Sea Fever”

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Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.

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Men, Sailing, Nautical

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Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.

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Men, Generosity, May

John Masefield (1941). “Dead Ned and Live and Kicking Ned”

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God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays.

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Prayer, Heart, Men

John Masefield (1978). “Selected poems”, Not Avail

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Man's body is faulty, his mind untrustworthy, but his imagination has made him remarkable.

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Men, Imagination, Mind

John Masefield (1933). “Recent prose”

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So shall I fight, so shall I tread,
In this long war beneath the stars;
So shall a glory wreathe my head,
So shall I faint and show the scars,
Until this case, this clogging mould,
Be smithied all to kingly gold.

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Stars, War, Struggle

John Masefield (1923). “The Collected Poems”

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And may we find when ended is the page, Death but a tavern on our pilgrimage.

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Taverns, May, Pages

John Masefield (1922). “The Poems and Plays of John Masefield: Poems”

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The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.

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Long Distance Relationship, Soul, Longing

John Masefield, Audrey Napier-Smith, William Buchan (1983). “Letters to Reyna”, London : Buchan & Enright

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It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries; I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes. For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills, And April's in the West wind, and daffodils.

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Eye, Wind, Land

John Masefield (1922). “The Poems and Plays of John Masefield: Poems”

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Born: June 1, 1878
Died: May 12, 1967
Occupation: Poet
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