“Love is a flame to set the will on fire”
Source: The Poems and Plays of John Masefield: Poems
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Famous John Masefield Quotes
“Man's body is faulty, his mind untrustworthy, but his imagination has made him remarkable.”
Source: Recent prose
Source: John Masefield's letters from the front, 1915-1917
“It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols.”
Source: The Box of Delights
Source: Dead Ned and Live and Kicking Ned
“It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries.”
Source: Salt-water Ballads
“Success is the brand on the brow of the man who aimed too low.”
Source: Selected poems
“Life is a long headache in a noisy street.”
Source: The Collected Poems
Source: The Poems and Plays of John Masefield: Poems
“Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.”
Source: The Poems and Plays of John Masefield
Source: Poems
Source: The Collected Poems