Many books have been written to show that Christianity has emasculated the world, that it shoved aside the enlightenment and wisdom of Hellas for a doctrine of superstition and ignorance.
Edgar Lee MastersThe mind sees the world as a thing apart, And the soul makes the world at one with itself. A mirror scratched reflects no imageโ And this is the silence of wisdom.
Edgar Lee MastersAnd I never started to plow in my life That some one did not stop in the road And take me away to a dance or picnic. I ended up with forty acres; I ended up with a broken fiddleโ And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories, And not a single regret.
Edgar Lee MastersThe spiritual kinship between Lincoln and Whitman was founded upon their Americanism, their essential Westernism. Whitman had grown up without much formal education; Lincoln had scarcely any education. One had become the notable poet of the day; one the orator of the Gettsyburg Address. It was inevitable that Whitman as a poet should turn with a feeling of kinship to Lincoln, and even without any association or contact feel that Lincoln was his.
Edgar Lee Masters