But Time and Tide and Buttered Eggs wait for no man.
--John Masefield
Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.
--John Masefield
Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
--John Masefield
Humans consist of body, mind and imagination. Our bodies are faulty, our minds untrustworthy, but our imagination has made us remarkable.
--John Masefield
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
In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.
--John Masefield
It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries.
--John Masefield
Life is a long headache in a noisy street.
--John Masefield
Life, a beauty chased by tragic laughter.
--John Masefield
Men in a ship are always looking up, and men ashore are usually looking down.
--John Masefield
Most roads lead men homewards,
My road leads forth.
--John Masefield
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.
--John Masefield
Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
--John Masefield
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
Success is the brand on the brow of the man who aimed too low.
--John Masefield
The days that make us happy make us wise.
--John Masefield
The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.
--John Masefield
The luck will alter and the star will rise.
--John Masefield
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
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?
--John Masefield
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