Edgar Lee Masters Quotes

"How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?"
- Edgar Lee Masters
(Related: Life, Soul, Man)

"Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it."
- Edgar Lee Masters
(Related: Achievement, Immortality)

"Those who first oppose a good work, seize it and make it their own, when the cornerstone is laid and memorial tablets are erected."
- Edgar Lee Masters
(Related: Work, First)

"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."
- Edgar Lee Masters
(Related: Life, Desire, End, Longing, Madness, May, Meaning, Sea)