How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived? — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
“Henry got me with child, Knowing that I could not bring forth life Without losing my own. In my youth therefore I… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle,… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
. . . the weal of the race, and the cause of humanity, here and now, are enough To give life meaning… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness, Anger, discontent and drooping hopes? Degenerate sons and daughters, Life is too strong… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
This is a man with an old face, always old... There was pathos, in his face, and in his eyes. The early… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
This is Darrow, Inadequately scrawled, with his young, old heart, And his drawl, and his infinite paradox And his sadness, and kindness,… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
And I never started to plow in my life That some one did not stop in the road And take me away… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
“I have studied many times The marble which was chiseled for me— A boat with a furled sail at rest in a… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share Image
The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, why fiddle… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share
And I never started to plow in my life That some one did not stop in the road And take me away to a… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share
Did I follow Truth wherever she led, And stand against the whole world for a cause, And uphold the weak against the strong? If… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share
The spiritual kinship between Lincoln and Whitman was founded upon their Americanism, their essential Westernism. Whitman had grown up without much formal education; Lincoln… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share
“Henry got me with child, Knowing that I could not bring forth life Without losing my own. In my youth therefore I entered the… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share
There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share
The Typical American? He is sent to school Little or much, where he imbibes the rule Of safety first and comfort; in his youth… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share
Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of Hellas for… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share
The dust's for crawling, heaven's for flying, Wherefore, O Soul, whose wings are grown, Soar upward to the sun! — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share
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… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share
The mind sees the world as a thing apart, And the soul makes the world at one with itself. A mirror scratched reflects no… — Edgar Lee Masters Copy Share
