John Masefield Quotes, Mother Quotes, Father Quotes

From '41 to '51I was my folk's contrary son;I bit my father's hand right throughAnd broke my mother's heart in two.

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The Lord who gave us Earth and Heaven Takes that as thanks for all He's given. The book he lent is given back All blotted red and smutted black.

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What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt Held in cohesion by unresting cells, Which work they know not why, which never halt, Myself unwitting where their Master dwells?

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When the last sea is sailed and last shallow charted, When the last field is reaped and the last harvest stored, When the last fire is out and the last guest departed Grant the last prayer that I pray, Be good to me, O Lord.

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The luck will alter and the star will rise.

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People who leave their own time out of their work cannot be surprised if their time fails to find them interesting.

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Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.

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Most roads lead men homewards, My road leads me forth

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So death obscures your gentle form, So memory strives to make the darkness bright; And, in that heap of rocks, your body lies, Part of the island till the planet ends, My gentle comrade, beautiful and wise, Part of this crag this bitter surge offends, While I, who pass, a little obscure thing, War with this force, and breathe, and am its king.

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Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind.

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Each one could be a Jesus mild, Each one has been a little child, A little child with laughing look, A lovely white unwritten book; A book that God will take, my friend, As each goes out at journey's end.

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I have seen dawn and sunset on moors and windy hills Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.

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Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain, And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.

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Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

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

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Love is a flame to set the will on fire

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State are not made, nor patched; they grow; Grow slow through centuries of pain, And grow correctly in the main; But only grow by certain laws, Of certain bits in certain jaws.

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Love is a flame to burn out human wills, Love is a flame to set the will on fire, Love is a flame to cheat men into mire.

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All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.

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I have seen the Lady April bringing the daffodils, Bringing the springing grass and the soft warm April rain.

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