Quotes about John Masefield

The luck will alter and the star will rise.

#John Masefield

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of...

#John Masefield

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense,...

#John Masefield

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But...

#John Masefield

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

#John Masefield

It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy...

#John Masefield

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

#John Masefield

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky;...

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

#John Masefield

Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.

#John Masefield