Edgar Lee Masters Quotes

• Your eight-page paper—behind which you huddle, Bawling through the megaphone of big type: ‘This is I, the giant.’

  Edgar Lee Masters

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• Why, a moral truth is a hollow tooth Which must be propped with gold.

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• Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom and Charley, The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown, the boozer, the fighter? All, all, are sleeping on the hill.

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• If he could describe it at all, he would be an artist. But if he were an artist, there would be deeper wounds, which he could not describe.

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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.

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

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  For i was punished like all who destroy the past for the sake of the future.

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Edgar Lee Masters (10)

Birth:	23rd August, 1868
Death:	5th March, 1950
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Biographer, Lawyer, Poet

About

Edgar Lee Masters was an American poet, biographer, and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology, The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Songs and Satires, The Great Valley, The Serpent in the Wilderness An Obscure Tale, The Spleen, Mark Twain: A Portrait, Lincoln: The Man, and Illinois Poems.

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