„To this generation I would say:
Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.“
— Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
Frases de Edgar Lee Masters
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Edgar Lee Masters
Fecha de nacimiento: 23. Agosto 1868
Fecha de muerte: 5. Marzo 1950
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Edgar Lee Masters , poeta, biógrafo y dramaturgo estadounidense.
Frases Edgar Lee Masters
„To this generation I would say:
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„The tongue may be an unruly member--
But silence poisons the soul.“
— Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
„In time you shall see Fate approach you
In the shape of your own image in the mirror;
Or you shall sit alone by your own hearth,
And suddenly the chair by you shall hold a guest,
And you shall know that guest,
And read the authentic message of his eyes.“
— Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology
Lyman King
„You may think, passer-by, that Fate
Is a pit-fall outside of yourself,
Around which you may walk by the use of foresight
And wisdom.“
— Edgar Lee Masters
"[http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lyman-king/ Lyman King]"
„Go by reverently, and read with sober care
How a great people, riding with defiant shouts
The centaur of Revolution,
Spurred and whipped to frenzy,
Shook with terror, seeing the mist of the sea
Over the precipice they were nearing,
And fell from his back in precipitate awe
To celebrate the Feast of the Supreme Being.“
— Edgar Lee Masters
"[http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/captain-orlando-killion/ Captain Orlando Killion]'
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„In my Spanish cloak,
And old slouch hat,
And overshoes of felt,
And Tyke, my faithful dog,
And my knotted hickory cane,
I slipped about with a bull's-eye lantern
From door to door on the square“
— Edgar Lee Masters
"[http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/andy-the-night-watch/ Andy the Night-Watch]"
„And when you are poor and have to carry
The Christian creed and wife and children
All on your back, it is too much!
That's why I made the Elixir of Youth,
Which landed me in the jail at Peoria
Branded a swindler and a crook
By the upright Federal Judge!“
— Edgar Lee Masters
"[http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dr-siegfried-iseman/ Dr. Siegfried Iseman]"
„Blind as I was, I tried to get out
As the carriage fell in the ditch,
And was caught in the wheels and killed.“
— Edgar Lee Masters
"[http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/blind-jack/ Blind Jack]"
