John Masefield Quotes, Strong Quotes, Battle Quotes

Life's battle is a conquest for the strong; The meaning shows in the defeated thing.

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

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O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green, O lily bursting white, Dear lily of delight, Spring in my heart agen That I may flower to men.

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Man with his burning soul Has but an hour of breath To build a ship of Truth In which his soul may sail- Sail on the sea of death. For death takes toll Of beauty, courage, youth, Of all but Truth.

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My road leads me seawards To the white dipping sails.

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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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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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All the great things of life are swiftly done, Creation, death, and love the double gate. However much we dawdle in the sun We have to hurry at the touch of Fate.

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Most roads lead men homewards, My road leads me forth

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

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

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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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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.

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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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The corn that makes the holy bread By which the soul of man is fed, The holy bread, the food unpriced, Thy everlasting mercy, Christ.

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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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His face was filled with broken commandments.

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In the power and splendor of the universe, inspiration waits for the millions to come. Man has only to strive for it. Poems greater than the Iliad, plays greater than Macbeth, stories more engaging than Don Quixote await their seeker and finder.

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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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