Thinkexist Quotations
Advanced Search My Account Help
Add the "Dynamic Daily Quotation" to Your Site or Blog - it's Easy!
 
All William Empson
QuotationsAuthorsTopicsKeywordsContributors My Quotations More...
Famous people:  Name|Nationality|Occupation|Date|Curiosity 
 Authors > Wil Wil > William Empson
11-15 Quotations of 15

William Empson quotes

bookmark email link cite rss
British Poet and Critic known for his immense influence on 20th-century literary criticism and for his rational, metaphysical poetry. 1906-1984

Popularity:
William Empson popularity 5/10
    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Attending there let us absorb the cultures of nations
And dissolve into our judgement all their codes.
Then, being clogged, with a natural hesitation
(People are continually asking one the way out),
Let us stand here and admit that we have no road.”

 William Empson quote

 Add to Chapter...
    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“It is the pain, it is the pain, endures.”

 William Empson quote

 Add to Chapter...
    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills.
It is not the effort nor the failure tires.
The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.”

 William Empson quote

 Add to Chapter...
    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“You don't want madhouse and the whole thing there.”

 William Empson quote

 Add to Chapter...
    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“It seems unpleasantly refined
To put things off till someone knows.”

 William Empson quote

 Add to Chapter...
William Empson quotes - previous       
<< William Emerson, Jr. quotesWilliam Epifanio quotes >>

   
Suggested
> T-Shirt quotes
> funny quotes
> famous quotes
> movie quotes
> sayings
> proverbs
> funny sayings
> Inspirational Quotes
> Cute Quotes
> Friendship Quotes
> Motivational Quotes
ThinkExist.com Quotations
Privacy & Security Policy | Terms of Service | Advertise | About us | Press room | Contact us | Help
Copyright ® ThinkExist 1999-2010