Not knowing breath, though you tried so hard,
With a heart that beat when you lived with me,
And stopped when you left me for Life.
(Elizabeth Childers)
More Quotes from Edgar Lee Masters:
She took my strength by the minutes,She took my life by hours,
She drained me like a fevered moon
That saps the spinning world.
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
Then how the picture began to clear
Till the face came forth like life?
Edgar Lee Masters
And whether you ever took it or not,
My boy, wherever you are,
Work for your soul's sake,
That all the clay of you, all of the dross of you,
May yield to the fire of you,
Till the fire is nothing but light!
Edgar Lee Masters
Why, a moral truth is a hollow tooth
Which must be propped with gold.
Edgar Lee Masters
And there is the silence of the dead.
Edgar Lee Masters
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