Edgar Lee Masters Quotes

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• Work for your own soul's sake.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Peace, Passion, Soul

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• 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

  Sea, Desire, May

  Edgar Lee Masters (2007). “Spoon River Anthology: Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.49, Prestwick House Inc

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• To love is to find your own soul Through the soul of the beloved one.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Love, Soul, Love Is

  Edgar Lee Masters (2007). “Spoon River Anthology: Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.74, Prestwick House Inc

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• The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Silence, Soul, Poison

  Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Fate, Mirrors, Shapes

  Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.101, Courier Corporation

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• How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Men, Soul

  Edgar Lee Masters (2007). “Spoon River Anthology: Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.166, Prestwick House Inc

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• I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea.
  And the silence of the city when it pauses,
  And the silence of a man and a maid,
  And the silence for which music alone finds the word.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Stars, Men, Sea

  Edgar Lee Masters (1916). “Songs and Satires”

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• Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Achievement, Agnostic, Immortality

  Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.210, Courier Corporation

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• There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Wisdom, Silence, Intelligence

  Edgar Lee Masters (1916). “Songs and Satires”

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• It takes life to love life.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Life, Love Life

  Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.107, Courier Corporation

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• Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Men, Rise To Power, He Man

  Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• Did I follow Truth wherever she led, And stand against the whole world for a cause, And uphold the weak against the strong? If I did I would be remembered among men.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Strong, Men, Would Be

  Edgar Lee Masters (2007). “Spoon River Anthology: Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.162, Prestwick House Inc

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• To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  This Generation, Generations, Verses

  Edgar Lee Masters (2007). “Spoon River Anthology: Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.66, Prestwick House Inc

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• The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished;
  And what is love but a rose that fades?

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Yesterday, Snow, What Is Love

  Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• the much-sought prize of eternal youth Is just arrested growth.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Growth, Youth, Eternal

  Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.175, The Floating Press

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• Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Rain, Mirrors, Sky

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• 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

  Memorial, Tablets, Firsts

  Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.160, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Memories, Regret, Broken

  Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.62, The Floating Press

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• The mind sees the world as a thing apart, And the soul makes the world at one with itself. A mirror scratched reflects no image— And this is the silence of wisdom.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Wisdom, Mirrors, Silence

  Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.108, Courier Corporation

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• What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness, Anger, discontent and drooping hopes? Degenerate sons and daughters, Life is too strong for you— It takes life to love Life.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Daughter, Strong, Love Life

  Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.107, Courier Corporation

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• There is no marriage in Heaven, but there is love.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Heaven

  Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• A giant as we hoped, in truth, a dwarf; A barrel of slop that shines on Lethe's wharf', Which at first seemed a vessel with sweet wine For thirsty lips. So down the swift decline You went through sloven spirit, craven heart And cynic indolence. And here the art Of molding clay has caught you for the nonce And made your shame our shame ~ Your head in bronze!

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Sweet, Art, Wine

  Edgar Lee Masters, “On A Bust”

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• In time you shall see Fate approach youIn the shape of your own image in the mirror;Or you shall sit alone by your own hearth,And suddenly the chair by you shall hold a guest,And you shall know that guest,And read the authentic message of his eyes.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Eye, Fate, Mirrors

  Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.188, The Floating Press

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• 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

  Heart, People, Earth

  Edgar Lee Masters (2012). “Spoon River Anthology”, p.62, The Floating Press

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• Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of Hellas for a doctrine of superstition and ignorance.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Book, Ignorance, Atheism

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