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Edmund Clarence Stedman quotes: Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

Edmund Clarence Stedman quotes: The weary August days are long;The locusts sing a plaintive song,The cattle miss their master's callWhen they see the sunset shadows fall.

The weary August days are long;
The locusts sing a plaintive song,
The cattle miss their master's call
When they see the sunset shadows fall.

Edmund Clarence Stedman quotes: Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song.

Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song.

Edmund Clarence Stedman quotes: Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.

Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.

Edmund Clarence Stedman quotes: A poet must sing for his own people.

A poet must sing for his own people.

Edmund Clarence Stedman quotes: The imagination never dies.

The imagination never dies.

Edmund Clarence Stedman quotes: O fresh-lit dawn! immortal life!O Earth's betrothal, sweet and true!

O fresh-lit dawn! immortal life!
O Earth's betrothal, sweet and true!

Edmund Clarence Stedman quotes: Music waves eternal wands,Enchantress of the souls of mortals!

Music waves eternal wands,
Enchantress of the souls of mortals!

Edmund Clarence Stedman quotes: A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager.

A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager.

Edmund Clarence Stedman quotes: Science has but one fashion-to lose nothing once gained.

Science has but one fashion-to lose nothing once gained.

Edmund Clarence Stedman quotes: The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.

The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.

Edmund Clarence Stedman quotes: Lo, as I gaze, the statured man,Built up from you large hand appears:A type that nature wills to planBut once in all a people's years.

Lo, as I gaze, the statured man,
Built up from you large hand appears:
A type that nature wills to plan
But once in all a people's years.

Edmund Clarence Stedman quotes: Look on this cast, and know the hand That bore a nation in its hold; From this mute witness understand What Lincoln was - how large of mould.

Look on this cast, and know the hand That bore a nation in its hold; From this mute witness understand What Lincoln was - how large of mould.

Edmund Clarence Stedman quotes: Let the winds blow! a fiercer gale Is wild within me! what may quell That sullen tempest? I must sail Whither, O whither, who can tell!

Let the winds blow! a fiercer gale
Is wild within me! what may quell
That sullen tempest? I must sail
Whither, O whither, who can tell!

Edmund Clarence Stedman quotes: Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

Edmund Clarence Stedman quotes: Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man's selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective.

Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man's selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective.

Edmund Clarence Stedman quotes: Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet.

Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet.

Edmund Clarence Stedman quotes: The poet who does not revere his art, and believe in its sovereignty, is not born to wear the purple.

The poet who does not revere his art, and believe in its sovereignty, is not born to wear the purple.

Edmund Clarence Stedman quotes: Worth, courage, honor, these indeedYour sustenance and birthright are.

Worth, courage, honor, these indeed
Your sustenance and birthright are.

Edmund Clarence Stedman quotes: Genius does not need a special language; it uses newly whatever tongue it finds.

Genius does not need a special language; it uses newly whatever tongue it finds.