John Masefield Quotes, Stars Quotes, Sea Quotes

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

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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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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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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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Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.

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The luck will alter and the star will rise.

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The Thames is a wretched river after the Mersey and the ships are not like Liverpool ships and the docks are barren of beauty ... it is a beastly hole after Liverpool; for Liverpool is the town of my heart and I would rather sail a mudflat there than command a clipper out of London

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Death opens unknown doors. It is most grand to die.

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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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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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Lord, give to me who are old and rougher The things that little children suffer, And let keep bright and undefiled The young years of the little child.

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The social states of human kinds Are made by multitudes of minds, And after multitudes of years A little human growth appears Worth having, even to the soul Who sees most plain it's not the whole.

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Life is a long headache in a noisy street.

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It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries; I never hear the west wind but tears are in my eyes. For it comes from the west lands, the old brown hills, And April's in the West wind, and daffodils.

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Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

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It may be that we cease; we cannot tell. Even if we cease, life is a miracle.

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I have seen flowers come in stony places And kind things done by men with ugly faces, And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust, too.

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

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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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