53 Quotes by Edgar Lee Masters

Work for your own soul’s sake.

The tongue may be an unruly member – But silence poisons the soul.

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.

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.

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.

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

Back of every soldier is a woman.

But a man can never avenge himself on the monstrous ogre Life.