William Morris Short Quotes

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Love is enough, though the world be awaning.

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Well, if this is poetry, it is very easy to write.

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I spend my life ministering to the swinish luxury of the rich.

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As to the garden, it seems to me its chief fruit is-blackbirds.

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The majesty
That from man's soul looks through his eager eyes.

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The greatest foe to art is luxury, art cannot live in its atmosphere.

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And ever she sung from noon to noon,
'Two red roses across the moon.'

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There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.

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A world made to be lost, —
A bitter life 'twixt pain and nothing tost.

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Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user,

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And at the corners stood great linden-trees, Hummed over by innumerable bees.

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By God! I will not tell you more to-day, Judge any way you will - what matters it?

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If you cannot learn to love real art, at least learn to hate sham art and reject it.

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Now such an one for daughter Creon had
As maketh wise men fools and young men mad.

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The most grinding poverty is a trifling evil compared with the inequality of classes.

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I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

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If others can see it as I have seen it, then it may be called a vision rather than a dream.

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Earth, left silent by the wind of night,
Seems shrunken 'neath the gray unmeasured height.

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Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.

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I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.

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The wind is not helpless for any man's need,
Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed.

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Wert thou more fickle than the restless sea,
Still should I love thee, knowing thee for such.

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Pray but one prayer for me 'twixt thy closed lips,
Think but one thought of me up in the stars.

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To happy folk
All heaviest words no more of meaning bear
Than far-off bells saddening the Summer air.

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What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent?

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All rooms ought to look as if they were lived in, and to have so to say, a friendly welcome ready for the incomer.

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If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all.

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Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making; or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.

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If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men.

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I know a little garden close,
Set thick with lily and red rose,
Where I would wander if I might From dewy morn to dewy night.

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