Witter Bynner Quotes

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The core and the surface
Are essentially the same
Words making them seem different
Only to express appearance.
If name be needed, wonder names them both:
From wonder into wonder existence opens.

Witter Bynner

A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick.

Witter Bynner

Name me no names for my disease,
With uninforming breath;
I tell you I am none of these,
But homesick unto death —Homesick for hills that I had known,
For brooks that I had crossed,
Before I met this flesh and bone
And followed and was lost….And though they break my heart at last,
Yet name no name of ills.
Say only, Here is where he passed,
Seeking again those hills.

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I am a miser of my memories of you
And will not spend them.

Witter Bynner

Existence is beyond the power of words to define:
Terms may be used
But are none of them absolute.

Witter Bynner

Words came out of the womb of matter;
And whether a man dispassionately
Sees to the core of life
Or passionately
Sees the surface,
The core and the surface
Are essentially the same,
Words making them seem different...

Witter Bynner

Witter Bynner

Witter Bynner

Born: August 10, 1881

Died: June 1, 1968 (aged 86)

Bio: Harold Witter Bynner, also known by the pen name Emanuel Morgan was an American poet, writer and scholar, known for his long residence in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and association with other literary figures there.

Known for:

The Way of Life, According to Lau Tzu (1944)
Spectra (1916)
Grenstone poems (1917)
The Chinese Translations
A Book of Plays (1922)

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