How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?
More Quotes from Edgar Lee Masters:
In age I knew the mountainsBut my weary wings could not follow my vision --
Genius is wisdom and youth.
Edgar Lee Masters
Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected.
Edgar Lee Masters
Where is my boy, my boy --
In what far part of the world?
Edgar Lee Masters
In my last sickness I was in agony, but I was resolute
And I cursed God for my suffering;
Still He paid no attention to me;
He left me alone, as He had always done.
Edgar Lee Masters
But not a cell in all the tree
Knew aught save that it thrilled with life,
Nor cared because the hammock fell
In the dust with Milton's poems.
Edgar Lee Masters
For you never traveled
The long, long way that begins with school days,
When little fingers blur under the tears
That fall on the crooked letters.
Edgar Lee Masters
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