The tongue may be an unruly member-- But silence poisons the soul. Edgar Lee Masters More Quotes by Edgar Lee Masters More Quotes From Edgar Lee Masters Work for your own soul's sake. Edgar Lee Masters passionsoulpeace To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid. Edgar Lee Masters seadesiremay To love is to find your own soul Through the soul of the beloved one. Edgar Lee Masters soullove-islove Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it. Edgar Lee Masters agnosticimmortalityachievement To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty. Edgar Lee Masters versesthis-generationgenerations In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror. Edgar Lee Masters fateshapesmirrors There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life. Edgar Lee Masters intelligencesilencewisdom I have known the silence of the stars and of the sea. Edgar Lee Masters starsseamen The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished; Edgar Lee Masters what-is-loveyesterdaysnow It takes life to love life. Edgar Lee Masters love-lifelife 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 tabletsmemorialfirsts How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived? Edgar Lee Masters soulmen the much-sought prize of eternal youth Is just arrested growth. Edgar Lee Masters eternalyouthgrowth A giant as we hoped, in truth, a dwarf; A barrel of slop that shines on Lethe's wharf', Which at first seemed a vessel with sweet wine For thirsty lips. So down the swift decline You went through sloven spirit, craven heart And cynic indolence. And here the art Of molding clay has caught you for the nonce And made your shame our shame ~ Your head in bronze! Edgar Lee Masters winesweetart Did I follow Truth wherever she led, And stand against the whole world for a cause, And uphold the weak against the strong? If I did I would be remembered among men. Edgar Lee Masters strongwould-bemen The mind sees the world as a thing apart, And the soul makes the world at one with itself. A mirror scratched reflects no image— And this is the silence of wisdom. Edgar Lee Masters silencemirrorswisdom There is no marriage in Heaven, but there is love. Edgar Lee Masters heaven Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back. Edgar Lee Masters mirrorsrainsky And I never started to plow in my life That some one did not stop in the road And take me away to a dance or picnic. I ended up with forty acres; I ended up with a broken fiddle— And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories, And not a single regret. Edgar Lee Masters regretbrokenmemories 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. Edgar Lee Masters atheismignorancebook
