Literary Birthday – 23 August – Edgar Lee Masters
Edgar Lee Masters was born on 23 August 1868 and died on 5 March 1950.
Edgar Lee Masters Quotes
- To put meaning in one’s life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
- To this generation I would say: Memorise some bit of verse of truth or beauty.
- It takes life to love life.
- How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?
- In time you shall see Fate approach you in the shape of your own image in the mirror.
- I ended up with a broken fiddle — And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories, And not a single regret.
Edgar Lee Masters was an American attorney, poet, biographer, and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology. His novels include Mitch Miller and The Nuptial Flight. Masters also wrote biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, and Mark Twain. In all, Masters published 12 plays, 21 books of poetry, six novels and six biographies. He was awarded the Mark Twain Silver Medal in 1936, the Poetry Society of America medal in 1941, the Academy of American Poets Fellowship in 1942, and the Shelly Memorial Award in 1944. In 2014, he was inducted into the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame.
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by Amanda Patterson
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