Empson

Famous quotes containing the word empson:

    “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.”
    —William Empson (1906–1984)

    “Liberal hopefulness
    Regards death as a mere border to an improving picture.”
    —William Empson (1906–1984)

    “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 (1906–1984)