Edgar Lee Masters Quotes

Rather a thousand times the county jail than to lie under this marble figure with wings and this gra...

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness,But life without meaning is the tortureOf restlessne...

Reckless of my mortality,Strengthen me to behold a face,To know the spirit of a beloved oneYet to en...

My name used to be in the papers dailyAs having dined somewhere,Or traveled somewhere,Or rented a ho...

I have studied many timesThe marble which was chiseled for me—A boat with a furled sail at rest in a...

And I never started to plow in my lifeThat some one did not stop in the roadAnd take me away to a da...

Act well your part,there all the honor lies.

O world, that's you!You are but a widened place in the riverWhere Life looks down and we rejoice for...

In time you shall see Fate approach youIn the shape of your own image in the mirror.

the much-sought prize of eternal youthIs just arrested growth.