Quotes by John Masefield

In the power and splendor of the universe, inspiration waits for the millions to come. Man has only to strive for it. Poems greater than the Iliad, plays greater than Macbeth, stories more engaging than Don Quixote await their seeker and finder.

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

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

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

Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.