Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis. William Empson More Quotes by William Empson More Quotes From William Empson This world is good enough for me, if only I can be good enough for it. William Empson good-enoughbe-goodworld The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own. William Empson differentliteraturepeople The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry. William Empson poetryrootsart Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it difficult to remember them. William Empson impossiblereason-whyremember The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others. William Empson forbearanceaccommodationsdifficult Twixt devil and deep sea, man hacks his caves; Birth, death; one, many; what is true, and seems; Earth's vast hot iron, cold space's empty waves. William Empson ironseamen Shall I make it clear, boys, for all to apprehend, Those that will not hear, boys, waiting for the end, Knowing it is near, boys, trying to pretend, Sitting in cold fear, boys, waiting for the end? William Empson knowingwaitingboys All those large dreams by which men long live well Are magic-lanterned on the smoke of hell. William Empson dreammenlong The heart of standing is that you cannot fly. William Empson standingheart Poets, on the face of it, have either got to be easier or to write their own notes; readers have either got to take more trouble over reading or cease to regard notes as pretentious and a sign of bad poetry William Empson readingfaceswriting Poetry contains nothing haphazard. William Empson haphazard I think many people (like myself) prefer to read poetry mixed with prose; William Empson readingbridgesthinking I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other poets have been. William Empson poetryliteratureviews 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 effortpoisonblood Buddhists and Christians contrive to agree about death Making death their ideal basis for different ideals. The Communists however disapprove of death Except when practical. William Empson buddhistdifferentchristian Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end. William Empson waitingboystwo To produce pure proletarian art the artist must be at one with the worker; this is impossible, not for political reasons, but because the artist never is at one with any public. William Empson politicalimpossibleart Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men. William Empson lawmenlong It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows. William Empson refinedseemsknows Liberal hopefulness Regards death as a mere border to an improving picture. William Empson hopefulnessregardborders
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