Quotes by Edgar Lee Masters

“What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness, Anger, discontent and drooping hopes? Degenerate sons and daughters, Life is too strong for you”

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

“It takes life to love life.””

“Act well your part,there all the honor lies.””

“There is no marriage in Heaven, but there is love.””

“I tramped through the countryTo get the feelingThat I was not a separate thing from the earth.I used to lose myselfBy lying with eyes half-open in the woods.Sometimes I talked with animals…””

“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 must, for all your life.””

“The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished;And what is love but a rose that fades?””

“FIDDLER JONESThe earth keeps some vibration goingThere in your heart, and that is you.And if the people find you can fiddle, Why, fiddle you must, for all your life. What do you see, a harvest of clover?Or a meadow to walk through to the river?The wind's in the corn; you rub your handsFor beeves hereafter ready for the market;Or else you hear the rustle of skirts.Like the girls when dancing at Little Grove.To Cooney Potter a pillar of dustOr whirling leaves meant ruinous drouth;They looked to me like Red-Head SammyStepping it off, to Toor-a-Loor.How could I till my forty acresNot to speak of getting more,With a medley of horns, bassoons and piccolosStirred in my brain by crows and robinsAnd the creak of a will-mill – only these?And I never started to plow in my lifeThat some one did not stop in the roadAnd take me away to a dance or picnic. I ended up with forty acres;I ended up with a broken fiddle –And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories, And not a single regret.””

“This is life's sorrow:That one can be happy only where two are;And that our hearts are drawn to starsWhich want us not.””

“Viandante,amare è ritrovare la propria animatraverso l'anima dell'amato.Quando l'amato se ne stacca,allora tu l'hai perduta.È scritto: "Ho un amico,ma il mio dolore non ha amici".””

“Back of every soldier is a woman.””

“Suppose a boy steals an appleFrom the tray at the grocery store, And they all begin to call him a thief,The editor, minister, judge, and all the people –«A thief», «a thief», «a thief», wherever he goes. And he can't get work, and he can't get breadWithout stealing it, why the boy will steal. It's the way people regard the theft of an appleThat makes the boy what he is.””

“Remember the acorn;It does not devour other acorns.””