John Masefield Quotes, Life Quotes, Men Quotes

Man cannot call the brimming instant back; Time's an affair of instants spun to days; If man must make an instant gold, or black, Let him, he may; but Time must go his ways. Life may be duller for an instant's blaze. Life's an affair of instants spun to years, Instants are only cause of all these tears.

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Heaven to me's a fair blue stretch of sky, Earth's jest a dusty road.

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His face was filled with broken commandments.

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And may we find when ended is the page, Death but a tavern on our pilgrimage.

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

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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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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.

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It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, 3 hours in a seasick steamer, & after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak 3 times, & then be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

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Life, a beauty chased by tragic laughter.

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When Life knocks at the door no one can wait, When Death makes his arrest we have to go.

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I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.

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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.

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

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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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The luck will alter and the star will rise.

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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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God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze, It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun, And light the wandering out of stony ways.

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

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But he has gone, A nation's memory and veneration, Among the radiant, ever venturing on, Somewhere, with morning, as such spirits will.

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