MARKHAM, EDWIN : Choices are the hinges of destiny. (Edwin Markham, social protest poet and Poet Laureate of the state of Oregon, 1852-1940)

MARKHAM, EDWIN : We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life. (Edwin Markham, social protest poet and Poet Laureate of the state of Oregon, 1852-1940)

MARKHAM, EDWIN : Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. (Edwin Markham, social protest poet and Poet Laureate of the state of Oregon, 1852-1940)

MARKHAM, EDWIN : He drew a circle that shut me ouHeretic, rebel, a thing to floutBut love and I had the wit to winWe drew a circle that took him in. (Edwin Markham, social protest poet and Poet Laureate of the state of Oregon, 1852-1940)