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Explore our hand-picked selection of 69 inspiring quotes by John Masefield.

About John Masefield

  • Born: June 1, 1878
  • Died: May 12, 1967
  • Occupation: Poet
    • The lord who gave us earth and heaven takes that as thanks for all he's given. the book he lent is given back all blotted red and smutted black.
    God Book Heaven
    From '41 to '51i was my folk's contrary son;i bit my father's hand right throughand broke my mother's heart in two.
    Mother Father Heart
    Each one could be a jesus mild, each one has been a little child, a little child with laughing look, a lovely white unwritten book; a book that god will take, my friend, as each goes out at journey's end.
    Jesus Children Book
    When life knocks at the door no one can wait, when death makes his arrest we have to go.
    Death Doors Waiting
    The corn that makes the holy bread by which the soul of man is fed, the holy bread, the food unpriced, thy everlasting mercy, christ.
    Men Soul Corn
    But he has gone, a nation's memory and veneration, among the radiant, ever venturing on, somewhere, with morning, as such spirits will.
    Morning Memories Gone
    When the last sea is sailed and last shallow charted, when the last field is reaped and the last harvest stored, when the last fire is out and the last guest departed grant the last prayer that i pray, be good to me, o lord.
    Death Prayer Fire
    The thames is a wretched river after the mersey and the ships are not like liverpool ships and the docks are barren of beauty ... it is a beastly hole after liverpool; for liverpool is the town of my heart and i would rather sail a mudflat there than command a clipper out of london
    Heart Rivers London
    In the dark room where i began my mother's life made me a man. through all the months of human birth her beauty fed my common earth. i cannot see, nor breathe, nor stir, but through the death of some of her.
    Mother Dark Men
    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?
    Life Work Cells
    All ye that pass by! while we least think it he prepares his mate. mate, and the king's pawn played, it never ceases, though all the earth is dust of taken pieces.
    Life Kings Taken
    Love is a flame to burn out human wills, love is a flame to set the will on fire, love is a flame to cheat men into mire.
    Life Love Is Men
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