John Masefield Quotes

"There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see."
- John Masefield
(Related: Truth, Hate, Ignorance, May, University)

"The luck will alter and the star will rise."
- John Masefield
(Related: Luck, Will)

"I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by."
- John Masefield
(Related: Lonely, Sea, Sky)

"Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have."
- John Masefield
(Related: Poetry, Common sense)

"It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries."
- John Masefield
(Related: Birds, Wind)

"It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?"
- John Masefield
(Related: Home, Being, England, Navy, Now, Right)

"In this life he laughs longest who laughs last."
- John Masefield
(Related: Life)

"Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain."
- John Masefield
(Related: Beauty, Old, Spain)

"Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult."
- John Masefield
(Related: People, Tragedy)

"Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few."
- John Masefield
(Related: Poetry, Amusement, Being, Community, Delight, Man, Press, Printing)