Edgar Lee Masters - Life Quotes

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

Edgar Lee Masters

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

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

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

Degenerate sons and daughters,
Life is too strong for you —
It takes life to love life.

Edgar Lee Masters

I am Anne Rutledge who sleep beneath these weeds, Beloved in life of Abraham Lincoln.

Edgar Lee Masters

Hear me, ambitious souls,
Sex is the curse of life!

Edgar Lee Masters

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.

Edgar Lee Masters