John Masefield Quotes

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• 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.

  John Masefield

  Mother, Giving, Soul

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

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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.

  John Masefield

  Lonely, Stars, Sea

  "Sea Fever" l. 1 (1902).

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• Love is a flame to set the will on fire

  John Masefield

  Love, Love Is, Fire

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

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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.

  John Masefield

  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.

  John Masefield

  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.

  John Masefield

  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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• 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.

  John Masefield

  Beautiful, Hate, Ignorance

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

  John Masefield

  Success, Leadership, Men

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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.

  John Masefield

  Spring, Light, Sun

  John Masefield (1923). “The Collected Poems”

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

  John Masefield

  Men, Sailing, Nautical

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

  John Masefield

  Stars, Sea, Sailing

  John Masefield, “Sea Fever”

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• Life is a long headache in a noisy street.

  John Masefield

  Life, Long, Headache

  John Masefield (1923). “The Collected Poems”

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

  John Masefield

  Prayer, Heart, Men

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

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• His face was filled with broken commandments.

  John Masefield

  Sarcastic, Broken, Faces

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

  John Masefield

  Men, Imagination, Mind

  John Masefield (1933). “Recent prose”

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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.

  John Masefield

  Men, Generosity, May

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

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• I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.

  John Masefield

  Life, Dream, Sweet

  'Sea Fever' (1902)

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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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• 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.

  John Masefield

  Inspiration, Men, Play

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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.

  John Masefield

  Stars, War, Struggle

  John Masefield (1923). “The Collected Poems”

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

  John Masefield

  Taverns, May, Pages

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

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