Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.
"Edgar Lee Masters" was an American poet, biographer, and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology, The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Songs and Satires, The Great Valley, The Serpent in the Wilderness An Obscure Tale, The Spleen, Mark Twain: A Portrait, Lincoln: The Man, and Illinois Poems. In all, Masters published twelve plays, twenty-one books of poetry, six novels and six biographies, including those of Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Vachel Lindsay, and Walt Whitman.
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How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?
Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.
Only after many trials for strength,Only when all stimulants fail,Does the aspiring soulBy its own sheer powerFind the divineBy resting upon itself.
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