Daughter Quote by Edgar Lee Masters

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

O maternal earth which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep!

— Edgar Lee Masters

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

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

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

“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

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

Work for your own soul's sake.

— Edgar Lee Masters

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

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

The dust's for crawling, heaven's for flying, Wherefore, O Soul, whose wings are grown, Soar upward to the sun!

— Edgar Lee Masters

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