I would have been as great as George Eliot
But for an untoward fate.
(Margaret Fuller Slack)
More Quotes from Edgar Lee Masters:
I died to you, no doubt.Edgar Lee Masters
Thereby also living the life of a sneak-thief,
Poisoned with the anonymous words
Of your clandestine soul.
Edgar Lee Masters
The inner kernel is freedom,
It is light, purity --
I can no more,
Find the goal or lose it, according to your vision.
Edgar Lee Masters
Yet I lie here
Soothed by a secret none but Mary knows:
There is a garden of acacia,
Catalpa trees, and arbors sweet with vines --
There on that afternoon in June
By Mary's side --
Kissing her with my soul upon my lips
It suddenly took flight.
Edgar Lee Masters
Then that woman, whom the men
Styled Cleopatra, came along.
Edgar Lee Masters
In truth, I can so believe.
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