But a man can never avenge himself
On the monstrous ogre Life.
(Robert Fulton Tanner)
More Quotes from Edgar Lee Masters:
While I lived I could not cope with slanderous tongues,Now that I am dead I must submit to an epitaph
Graven by a fool!
Edgar Lee Masters
If a man could bite the giant hand
That catchs and destroys him,
As I was bitten by a rat
While demonstrating my patent trap,
In my hardware store that day.
Edgar Lee Masters
But not content,
Wishing to own two thousand acres,
I bustled through the years with axe and plow,
Toiling, denying myself, my wife, my sons, my daughters.
Edgar Lee Masters
And I ask: For the depths,
Of what use is language?
Edgar Lee Masters
Do you think that the Battle Hymn of the Republic
Would have been heard if the chattel slave
Had crowned the dominant dollar,
In spite of Whitney's cotton gin,
And steam and rolling mills and iron
And telegraphs and white free labor?
Edgar Lee Masters
It is all forgotten, save by us, the memories,
Who are forgotten by the world.
Edgar Lee Masters
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