Edwin Markham

Poet

1852-04-23

Quotes by Edwin Markham

• He fed his spirit with the bread of books

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• Fight ever on: this earthly stuff If used God's way will be enough. Face to the firing line o friendFight out life's battle to the end. One soldier, when the fight was red,Threw down his broken sword and fled.Another snatched it, won the day, With what his comrade flung away.

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• He drew a circle that shut me out-Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout.But love and I had the wit to win:We drew a circle and took him In !From the poem Outwitted

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• He drew a circle that shut me out-Heretic , rebel, a thing to flout.But love and I had the wit to win:We drew a circle and took him In !From the poem Outwitted

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• Fight ever on: this earthly stuff If used God's way will be enough. Face to the firing line o friendFight out life's battle to the end. One soldier, when the fight was red,Threw down his broken sword and fled.Another snatched it, won the day, With what his comrade flung away.

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• He fed his spirit with the bread of books

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• There is a destiny which makes us brothers none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

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• The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is brotherhood.

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• For all your days be prepared, and meet them ever alike. When you are the anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.

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• Use and beauty - these should be the ends of all human effort. But the competitive struggle swings us away from this high ground and plunges us into a quagmire fight for cheap goods and cheap labor.

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• Spain held the doctrine (and was right in holding it) that every human enterprise should stand on two pillars - the temporal and the spiritual. To depend upon one of these pillars alone is to call down final failure upon any undertaking.

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• We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

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• Force cannot transmit a moral principle: moral ideas can be received only through the reason of the heart.

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• We have ground for believing that a noble form of socialism existed among the prehistoric and primitive people on this planet, the people that broke into restless groups after the ancient Deluge and went wandering over the globe. For we find a socialist tendency in all the barbaric tribes of earth.

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• Every man on the planet should do some physical work: he should help in the bread-labor of mankind. He should also do some of the intellectual work: he should help in the thought-labor of mankind. In a word, every thinker should work, and every worker should think.

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• Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!

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• I (God) will leave man to make the fateful guess, Will leave him torn between the no and yes, Leave him unresting till he rests in me, Drawn upward by the choice that makes him free, Leave him in tragic loneliness to choose, With all in life to win or all to lose.

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• When Duty comes a-knocking at your gate, Welcome him in; for if you bid him wait, He will depart only to come once more And bring seven other duties to your door.

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• There is a destiny which makes us brothers; None goes his way alone; All that we send into the lives of others, Comes back into our own.

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• Oft when the white, still dawn Lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart, I have felt it like a glory in my heart.

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