Quotes by John Masefield

John Masefield

English poet and writer

Lived from: 1878 - 1967

Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: United Kingdom

Born: 1 june 1878 Died: 12 may 1967

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• Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.

  ― John Masefield
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• 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
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• 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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Subjects in these quotes:

• commonplace
• unresting
• unwitting
• because
• suffer
• cannot

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