John Masefield Quotes

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

And all the way that wild high crying, To cold his blood with the thought of dying.

I have seen flowers come in stony places And kind things done by men with ugly faces, And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust, too.

Life’s battle is a conquest for the strong; The meaning shows in the defeated thing.

And he who gives a child a treat Makes joy-bells ring in Heaven’s street, And he who gives a child a home Builds palaces in Kingdom come, And she who gives a baby birth Brings Saviour Christ again to Earth.

Out into the street I ran uproarious The devil dancing in me glorious.