43 Quotes by William Empson

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

Attending there let us absorb the cultures of nationsAnd 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.

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.

So your flesh shall be part of mine And part of mine be yours. Brother and sister we shall be Whose 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.

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 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.

It is this deep blankness is the real thing strange. The more things happen to you the more you can't Tell or remember even what they were.

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