Edgar Lee Masters

To put meaning in one’s life may end in madness,But life without meaning is the tortureOf restlessness and vague desire–It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

To put meaning in one’s life may end in madness,But life without meaning is the tortureOf restlessness and vague desire–It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

– Edgar Lee Masters –

Spoon River Anthology

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