John Masefield Quotes

• The distant soul can shake the distant friend’s soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.

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• I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

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• There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

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• The luck will alter and the star will rise.

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• Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

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• Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

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• Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.

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• It’s a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds’ cries.

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• It is too maddening. I’ve got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I’ll have to speak three times, and then I’ll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

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• In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

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• Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.

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• Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.

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John Masefield (32)

Birth:	1st June, 1878
Death:	12th May, 1967
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Poet, Writer

About

John Edward Masefield was born in Ledbury, Herefordshire, England. He was an English poet and novelist. He was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930. He Educated at King’s School, Warwick. He wrote several poems include: The everlasting mercy, Dauber, Salt-Water Poems and Ballads, Reynard the fox, and King Cole. He wrote several novels include: A Mainsail Haul, Multitude and solitude, Captain Margaret, Lost Endeavour, Sard Harker, Odtaa, The Midnight Folk, The Taking of the Gry, and The Box of Delights. His non-fiction works, including Sea Life in Nelson's Time, The Old Front Line, and The Battle of the Somme.

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