Edgar Lee Masters Quotes

Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.

Learn poetry by heart. If you know a poem by heart, no one can take it away from you, and you can take advantage of it anytime.

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

Teachers, you are the shapers of thought and the molders of sentiment, not of this age and of this generation alone, but of ages and generations to come.

Wisdom married to immortal verse.

When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle with Shakspeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with Swedenborg the mourner; but who shall see, speak, and act, with equal inspiration. For knowledge will brighten the sunshine; right is more beautiful than private affection; and love is compatible with universal wisdom.

All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.

He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.

Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

Song is not Truth, not Wisdom, but the rose Upon Truths lips, the light in Wisdom's eyes.

Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.

Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

You know that you know nothing. Find out that knowledge.

Truths kindle light for truths.

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.

All I can do is repeat what I think is the best information that anybody ever gave me.

A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.

Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice.

I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result I have thousands of lines of poetry by heart. I owe everything to this.

Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.