John Masefield

“Best trust the happy moments. ... The days that make us happy make us wise.”

“An art in which the artist by means of rhythm and great sincerity can convey to others the sentiment which he feels about life.”

“God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays.”

“Sea-fever I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by, And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's...”

“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'l...”

“Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.”

“Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.”

“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.”