Edgar Lee Masters Quotes
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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…
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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…
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Work for your own soul's sake.
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. . . the weal of the race, and the cause of humanity, here and now, are enough To give life meaning and death as…
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There is no marriage in Heaven, but there is love.
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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…
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Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.
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How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?
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Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.
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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.
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To love is to find your own soul Through the soul of the beloved one.
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O maternal earth which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep!
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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…
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To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.
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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…
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It takes life to love life.
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In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror.
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The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul.
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the much-sought prize of eternal youth Is just arrested growth.
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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…
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