101 Quotes by John Masefield

The days that make us happy make us wise

I hold that when a person dies / His soul returns again to earth; / Arrayed in some new flesh disguise / Another mother gives him birth / With sturdier limbs and brighter brain.

I must go down to the sea again For the call of the running tide It’s a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied.

It is too maddening. I’ve got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I’ll have to speak three times, and then I’ll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

The days that make us happy make us wise.

Man’s body is faulty, his mind untrustworthy, but his imagination has made him remarkable.

The distant soul can shake the distant friend’s soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.

God warms his hands at man’s heart when he prays.

In the dark room where I began My mother’s life made me a man. Through all the months of human birth Her beauty fed my common earth. I cannot see, nor breathe, nor stir, But through the death of some of her.