Edgar Lee Masters (1868–1950) was an American attorney, poet, biographer, and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology, The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Songs and Satires, The Great Valley, The Serpent in the Wilderness An Obscure Tale, The Spleen, Mark Twain: A Portrait, Lincoln: The Man, and Illinois Poems. In all, Masters published twelve plays, twenty-one books of poetry, six novels and six biographies, including those of Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Vachel Lindsay, and Walt Whitman.
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Beware of the man who rises to powerFrom one suspender.
—Edgar Lee Masters
Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.
—Edgar Lee Masters
Topics: Fame
How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?
—Edgar Lee Masters
Topics: Soul
Why, a moral truth is a hollow tooth which must be propped with gold.
—Edgar Lee Masters
Topics: Morals
The lifeless boughs of time.
—Edgar Lee Masters
Topics: Time
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