John Masefield Quotes, Weather Quotes, Two Quotes

Off Cape Horn there are but two kinds of weather, neither one of them a pleasant kind.

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When Life knocks at the door no one can wait, When Death makes his arrest we have to go.

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So death obscures your gentle form, So memory strives to make the darkness bright; And, in that heap of rocks, your body lies, Part of the island till the planet ends, My gentle comrade, beautiful and wise, Part of this crag this bitter surge offends, While I, who pass, a little obscure thing, War with this force, and breathe, and am its king.

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Love is a flame to burn out human wills, Love is a flame to set the will on fire, Love is a flame to cheat men into mire.

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Lord, give to me who are old and rougher The things that little children suffer, And let keep bright and undefiled The young years of the little child.

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In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

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Death opens unknown doors. It is most grand to die.

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Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.

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It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, 3 hours in a seasick steamer, & after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak 3 times, & then be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

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

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But he has gone, A nation's memory and veneration, Among the radiant, ever venturing on, Somewhere, with morning, as such spirits will.

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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.

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Man's body is faulty, his mind untrustworthy, but his imagination has made him remarkable.

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The luck will alter and the star will rise.

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God dropped a spark down into everyone, And if we find and fan it to a blaze, It'll spring up and glow, like--like the sun, And light the wandering out of stony ways.

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I have seen the Lady April bringing the daffodils, Bringing the springing grass and the soft warm April rain.

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It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols.

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

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People who leave their own time out of their work cannot be surprised if their time fails to find them interesting.

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My road leads me seawards To the white dipping sails.

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