What are masters?

Famous quotes containing the word masters:

“Ballades by the score with the same old thought:
The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished;
And what is love but a rose that fades?”
—Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950)

“The masters of the subtle schools
Are controversial, polymath.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

“I took the standpoint that the profession of technologist, a man who masters matter, is a masculine profession, if not the only masculine profession there is.”
—Max Frisch (1911–1991)