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It seems unpleasantly refinedTo put things off till someone knows. - William Empson Quotes

It seems unpleasantly refinedTo put things off till someone knows.

It is this deep blankness is the real thing strange.The more things happen to you the more you can'tTell or remember even what they were. - William Empson Quotes

It is this deep blankness is the real thing strange.The more things happen to you the more you can'tTell or remember even what they were.

So your flesh shall be part of mineAnd part of mine be yours.Brother and sister we shall beWhose unity endures.Always the sister doll will cry,Made in these careful ways,Cry on and on, Come back to me,Come back, in a few days. - William Empson Quotes

So your flesh shall be part of mineAnd part of mine be yours.Brother and sister we shall beWhose unity endures.Always the sister doll will cry,Made in these careful ways,Cry on and on, Come back to me,Come back, in a few days.

. . . life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis. - William Empson Quotes

. . . life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

Life

A humanist, as I understand the term, says,

A humanist, as I understand the term, says, "This world is good enough for me, if only I can be good enough for it."

It seemed the best thing to be up and go. - William Empson Quotes

It seemed the best thing to be up and go.

The

The "News," the conferences that leer,the creeping fog, the civil traps.These are what force you into fear.

Fear

. . . the waste even in a fortunate life, the isolation of a life rich in intimacy, cannot but be felt deeply, and is the central feeling of tragedy. And anything of value must accept this because it must not prostitute itself; its strength is to be prepared to waste itself, if it does not get the opportunity. - William Empson Quotes

. . . the waste even in a fortunate life, the isolation of a life rich in intimacy, cannot but be felt deeply, and is the central feeling of tragedy. And anything of value must accept this because it must not prostitute itself; its strength is to be prepared to waste itself, if it does not get the opportunity.

Life

The heart of standing is you cannot fly. - William Empson Quotes

The heart of standing is you cannot fly.

English Poet Heart

Seven types of ambiguity. - William Empson Quotes

Seven types of ambiguity.

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