26 ordspråk av John Masefield

John Masefield

John Masefield

John Masefield föddes den 1 juni 1878 och dog den 12 maj 1967 - English writer
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I must down to the sea again, for the call of the running tide / Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied.

One road leads to London, / One road runs to Wales, / My road leads me seawards / To the white dipping sails.

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.

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.

The days that make us happy make us wise

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

Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song. / Better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.

In the power and splendor of the universe, inspiration waits for the millions to come. Man has only to strive for it. Poems greater than the Iliad, plays greater than Macbeth, stories more engaging than Don Quixote await their seeker and finder.

Sex ran in him like the sea

My race being run, I love to watch the race

And he who gives a child a treat Makes joy-bells ring in Heaven's street, And he who gives a child a home Builds palaces in Kingdom come, And she who gives a baby birth Brings Saviour Christ again to Earth.

His face was filled with broken commandments

It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries.

Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.

It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

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