Nothing in life is alien to you:
I was a penniless girl from Summum
Who stepped from the morning train in Spoon River.
(Ida Frickey)
More Quotes from Edgar Lee Masters:
I thought over the last letter written meBy that estranged young soul
Whose betrayal of me I had concealed
By marrying the old man.
Edgar Lee Masters
You believed in the joy of life.
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They set the lips, and sagged the cheeks,
And drooped the eyes with sorrow.
Edgar Lee Masters
How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?
Edgar Lee Masters
Oh many times did Ernest Hyde and I
Argue about the freedom of the will.
Edgar Lee Masters
Then how the picture began to clear
Till the face came forth like life?
Edgar Lee Masters
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