Edgar Lee Masters
Edgar Lee Masters
Edgar Lee Masterswas an American attorney, poet, biographer, and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology, The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Songs and Satires, The Great Valley, The Serpent in the Wilderness An Obscure Tale, The Spleen, Mark Twain: A Portrait, Lincoln: The Man, and Illinois Poems. In all, Masters published twelve plays, twenty-one books of poetry, six novels and six biographies, including those of Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Vachel Lindsay, and Walt Whitman...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth23 August 1868
CountryUnited States of America
The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished; And what is love but a rose that fades?
In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror.
Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.
To love is to find your own soul Through the soul of the beloved one.
To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.
It takes life to love life.
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.
Work for your own soul's sake.