Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.
More Quotes from Edgar Lee Masters:
Yet all the while I hungered for meaning in my life.Edgar Lee Masters
Hear me, ambitious souls,
Sex is the curse of life.
Edgar Lee Masters
Then how the picture began to clear
Till the face came forth like life?
Edgar Lee Masters
But in taking life for myself,
In seizing and crushing their souls,
As a child crushes grapes and drinks
From its palms the purple juice,
I came to this wingless void,
Where neither red, nor gold, nor wine,
Nor the rhythm of life are known.
Edgar Lee Masters
She was a hunk of sculptor's clay,
My secret thoughts were fingers:
They flew behind her pensive brow
And lined it deep with pain.
Edgar Lee Masters
And if the people find you can fiddle,
Why, fiddle you must and for all your life.
Edgar Lee Masters
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