Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology Quotes
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the tortureOf restlessness and vague desire--It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
O world, that's you!You are but a widened place in the riverWhere Life looks down and we rejoice for herMirrored in us, and so we dreamAnd turn away
In time you shall see Fate approach youIn the shape of your own image in the mirror.
the much-sought prize of eternal youthIs just arrested growth.
