Masefield, John Filmography

• Box of Delights
  2011, role: writer
• Good Friday
  1950, role: writer
• Chapter and Verse
  1936, role: actor , character name: Himself

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Famous quotes by John Masefield:

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

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

"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"

"Sex ran in him like the sea"

"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."

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

"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."

"The days that make us happy make us wise"

"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 go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by."

"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."

"Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it."

"It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries."

"Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain."

"It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?"

"Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have."

"The luck will alter and the star will rise."