Edgar Lee Masters
Born: 01-01-1868
Edgar Lee Masters was an American poet, lawyer, and biographer, best known for his groundbreaking work "Spoon River Anthology," published in 1915. Born in 1868 in Garnett, Kansas, Masters grew up in Illinois, where the small-town life inspired much of his writing. His vivid, free-verse monologues explored the hidden lives and secrets of rural America. Masters' work influenced future generations of poets with its innovative narrative style and candid portrayal of human nature.
Book summaries for books written by Edgar Lee Masters
Quotes
To be read by moonlight.
The dead are dancing with the dead, the dust is whirling with the dust.
Be the best of whatever you are.
I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.
He was not a man: he was a mushroom.
I had no time to hate, because the grave would hinder me, and life was not so ample I could finish enmity.
I am not the rose, but I have been near the rose.
I dreamed that I was a rose that grew beside a lonely way.
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact.
We are all the sons of God.
There is no loneliness like the loneliness of crowds, especially to a crowd of one.
If I should be the first to die, as I shall not be, I should like to know what they would say.