And I chiseled for them whatever they wished,
All in ignorance of its truth.
(Richard Bone)
More Quotes from Edgar Lee Masters:
And I say to all, beware of ideals,Beware of giving your love away
To any man alive.
Edgar Lee Masters
There is no marriage in heaven,
But there is love.
Edgar Lee Masters
And the silence of Jeanne d'Arc
Saying amid the flames, "Blessed Jesus" --
Revealing in two words all sorrows, all hope.
Edgar Lee Masters
For this is the birth of the soul in sorrow,
A birth with gains and losses.
Edgar Lee Masters
But why will you never see that love of women,
And even love of wine,
Are the stimulants by which the soul, hungering for divinity,
Reaches the ecstatic vision
And sees the celestial outposts?
Edgar Lee Masters
Dust of my dust,
And dust with my dust,
O, child who died as you entered the world,
Dead with my death!
Edgar Lee Masters
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