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