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Edgar Lee Masters

Fiddler Jones

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Spoon River Anthology

Edgar Lee Masters

Fiddler Jones

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Famous Edgar Lee Masters Quotes

“The tongue may be an unruly member--
But silence poisons the soul.”

Edgar Lee Masters book Spoon River Anthology

Source: Spoon River Anthology

“In time you shall see Fate approach you
In 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.”

Edgar Lee Masters book Spoon River Anthology

Lyman King
Source: Spoon River Anthology

“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 book Spoon River Anthology

Source: Spoon River Anthology

“To this generation I would say:
Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.”

Edgar Lee Masters book Spoon River Anthology

Source: Spoon River Anthology

“Go by reverently, and read with sober care
How a great people, riding with defiant shouts
The centaur of Revolution,
Spurred and whipped to frenzy,
Shook with terror, seeing the mist of the sea
Over the precipice they were nearing,
And fell from his back in precipitate awe
To celebrate the Feast of the Supreme Being.”

Edgar Lee Masters

" Captain Orlando Killion http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/captain-orlando-killion/'

“What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness,
Anger, discontent and drooping hopes?
Degenerate sons and daughters,
Life is too strong for you—
It takes life to love Life.”

Edgar Lee Masters

Edgar Lee Masters Quotes

“In my Spanish cloak,
And old slouch hat,
And overshoes of felt,
And Tyke, my faithful dog,
And my knotted hickory cane,
I slipped about with a bull's-eye lantern
From door to door on the square”

Edgar Lee Masters

" Andy the Night-Watch http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/andy-the-night-watch/"

“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 book Fiddler Jones

Fiddler Jones

“And when you are poor and have to carry
The Christian creed and wife and children
All on your back, it is too much!
That's why I made the Elixir of Youth,
Which landed me in the jail at Peoria
Branded a swindler and a crook
By the upright Federal Judge!”

Edgar Lee Masters

" Dr. Siegfried Iseman http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dr-siegfried-iseman/"

“Blind as I was, I tried to get out
As the carriage fell in the ditch,
And was caught in the wheels and killed.”

Edgar Lee Masters

" Blind Jack http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/blind-jack/"

“You may think, passer-by, that Fate
Is a pit-fall outside of yourself,
Around which you may walk by the use of foresight
And wisdom.”

Edgar Lee Masters

" Lyman King http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lyman-king/"

“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 book Fiddler Jones

"Fiddler Jones"

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