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Letter "W" » William Morris Quotes
«Join hope to our hope and blend sorrow with sorrow,And seek for men's love in the short days of life.»
«There were four of us about that bed; / The mass-priest knelt at the side, / I and his mother stood at the head, / Over his feet lay the bride.»
«Let dead hearts tarry and trade and marry,And trembling nurse their dreams of mirth,While we the living our lives are givingTo bring the bright new world to birth.»
«I hope that we shall have leisure from war, -- war commercial, as well as war of the bullet and the bayonet; leisure from the knowledge that darkens counsel; leisure above all from the greed of money, and the craving for that overwhelming distinction that money now brings: I believe that, as we have even now partly achieved liberty , so we shall achieve equality , and best of all, fraternity , and so have leisure from poverty and all its griping, sordid cares.»
«If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men.»
«What is this the sound and rumor? What is this that all men hear, Like the wind in hollow valleys when the storm is drawing near, Like the rolling of the ocean in the eventide of fear? 'Tis the people marching on»
«His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed.»
«When he understands, as few others do, something of his home that is funny, or sad, or tragic, or cruel, or beautiful, or true, he knows he must do so as a stranger.»
«Dreamer of dreams, born out of my due time, / Why should I strive to set the crooked straight? / Let it suffice me that my murmuring rhyme / Beats with light wing against the ivory gate, / Telling a tale not too importunate.»
Author: William Morris
(Designer, Poet)
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beats, importunate, ivory, murmuring, rhyme, suffice
«Speak but one word to me over the corn, / Over the tender, bowed locks of the corn.»
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