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.
(Robert Fulton Tanner)
More Quotes from 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
And I ask: For the depths,
Of what use is language?
Edgar Lee Masters
Where are Ella, Kate, Mag, Lizzie, and Edith,
The tender heart, the simple soul, the loud, the proud, the happy one?
Edgar Lee Masters
They come in solitude, or perhaps
You sit with your friend, and all at once
A silence falls on speech, and his eyes
Without a flicker glow at you: --
You two have seen the secret together,
He sees it in you, and you in him.
Edgar Lee Masters
Then Christ came to me and said,
"Go into the church and stand before the congregation
And confess your sin.
Edgar Lee Masters
If we who are in life cannot speak
Of profound experiences,
Why do you marvel that the dead
Do not tell you of death?
Edgar Lee Masters
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