(...) It, s hard not to be able. There, look there! / I cannot get the movement nor the light;/ Sometimes it almost makes a man despair/ To try and try and never get it right./ Oh, if I could -oh, if I only might, / I wouldn, t mind what hells I, d have to pass, / Not if the whole world called me fool and ass." Dauber (A poem). John Masefield. 1916. London William Heinemann John Masefield
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
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Pablo Neruda
It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.
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Virginia Woolf
Sweetest smile is made saddest tear-drop!
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Edwin Arnold
The true poem rests between the words.
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Vanna Bonta
Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.
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Mark Strand
More Quotes By John Masefield
The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.
Only the road and the dawn, the sun, the wind, and the rain, And the watch fire under stars, and sleep, and the road again.
I have seen flowers come in stony places And kind things done by men with ugly faces, And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust, too.
I must go down to the sea again, for the call of the running tide, is a wild call and a clear call, that cannot be denied!
(...) It, s hard not to be able. There, look there! / I cannot get the movement nor the light;/ Sometimes it almost makes a man despair/ To try and try and never get it right./ Oh, if I could -oh, if I only might,...
