Quotes by Edgar Lee Masters

Edgar Lee Masters

He stripped off the armor of institutional friendships To dedictate his soul To the terrible deities of Truth and Beauty.

Armor

Atheism

Soul

How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?

Men

Soul

Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

Achievement

Agnostic

Immortality

In time you shall see Fate approach youIn the shape of your own image in the mirror;Or you shall sit alone by your own hearth,And suddenly the chair by you shall hold a guest,And you shall know that guest,And read the authentic message of his eyes.

Eye

Fate

Mirrors

It takes life to love life.

Life

Love Life

Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of Hellas for a doctrine of superstition and ignorance.

Atheism

Book

Ignorance

O maternal earth which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep!

Nature

Rocks

Sleep

The dust’s for crawling, heaven’s for flying, Wherefore, O Soul, whose wings are grown, Soar upward to the sun!

Dust

Heaven

Wings

The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, why fiddle you must, for all your life.

Earth

Heart

People

The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished; And what is love but a rose that fades?

Snow

What Is Love

Yesterday

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Kindness

Life

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Love Is

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May

Men

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Moving

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Peace

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Quotes by Edgar Lee Masters

Edgar Lee Masters

He stripped off the armor of institutional friendships To dedictate his soul To the terrible deities of Truth and Beauty.

How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?

Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

In time you shall see Fate approach youIn the shape of your own image in the mirror;Or you shall sit alone by your own hearth,And suddenly the chair by you shall hold a guest,And you shall know that guest,And read the authentic message of his eyes.

It takes life to love life.

Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of Hellas for a doctrine of superstition and ignorance.

O maternal earth which rocks the fallen leaf to sleep!

The dust’s for crawling, heaven’s for flying, Wherefore, O Soul, whose wings are grown, Soar upward to the sun!

The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, why fiddle you must, for all your life.

The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished; And what is love but a rose that fades?

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