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Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
— Edmund Clarence Stedman
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
Faith and joy are the ascensive forces of song.
— Edmund Clarence Stedman
Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.
— Edmund Clarence Stedman
A poet must sing for his own people.
— Edmund Clarence Stedman
The imagination never dies.
— Edmund Clarence Stedman
O fresh-lit dawn! immortal life!O Earth's betrothal, sweet and true! — Edmund Clarence Stedman
Music waves eternal wands,Enchantress of the souls of mortals! — Edmund Clarence Stedman
A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager.
— Edmund Clarence Stedman
Science has but one fashion-to lose nothing once gained.
— Edmund Clarence Stedman
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
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
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
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
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
Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man's selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective.
— Edmund Clarence Stedman
Alas, by what rude fate Our lives, like ships at sea, an instant meet, Then part forever on their courses fleet.
— Edmund Clarence Stedman
The poet who does not revere his art, and believe in its sovereignty, is not born to wear the purple.
— Edmund Clarence Stedman
Worth, courage, honor, these indeedYour sustenance and birthright are. — Edmund Clarence Stedman
Genius does not need a special language; it uses newly whatever tongue it finds.
— Edmund Clarence Stedman