John Masefield
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"John Edward Masefield", Order of Merit/OM was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death in 1967. He is remembered as the author of the classic children's novels The Midnight Folk and The Box of Delights, and poems, including "The Everlasting Mercy" and "Sea-Fever".

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Sex ran in him like the sea.

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.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

I have seen flowers come in stony places And kind things done by men with ugly faces And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust too.

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

One road leads to London, / One road runs to Wales, / My road leads me seawards / To the white dipping sails.

In the power and splendor of the universe, inspiration waits for the millions to come. Man has only to strive for it. Poems greater than the Iliad, plays greater than Macbeth, stories more engaging than Don Quixote await their seeker and finder.

The days that make us happy make us wise.

Laugh and be merry, remember, better the world with a song. / Better the world with a blow in the teeth of a wrong.

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

I must down to the sea again, for the call of the running tide / Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied.

I must down to the seas again to the vagrant gypsy life,To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife; And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's o.