Spoon River Quotes

“The tongue may be an unruly member--
But silence poisons the soul.”
― Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology

“But instead I mounted a little in life,
And I owe it all to a book I read.
But why did I go to Mason City,
Where I chanced to see the book in a window,
With its garish cover luring my eye?
And why did my soul respond to the book,
As I read it over and over?”
― Edgar Lee Masters, Spoon River Anthology