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The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
William Morris
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William Morris
Age: 62 †
Born: 1834
Born: March 24
Died: 1896
Died: October 3
Wilcumestowe
William M. Morris
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My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another.
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Artists cannot help themselves they are driven to create by their nature, but for that nature to truly thrive, we need to preserve the precious habitat in which that beauty can flourish.
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History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.
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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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Speak but one word to me.
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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
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To happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air.
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Another thing much too commonly seen, is an aberration of the human mind which otherwise I should have been ashamed to warn you of. It is technically called carpet-gardening. Need I explain it further? I had rather not, for when I think of it, even when I am quite alone, I blush with shame at the thought.
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A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.
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Forgetfulness of grief I yet may gainIn some wise may come ending to my painIt may be yet the Gods will have me glad!Yet, Love, I would that thee and pain I had!
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We are only the trustees for those who come after us.
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A good way to rid one's self of a sense of discomfort is to do something. That uneasy, dissatisfied feeling is actual force vibrating out of order it may be turned to practical account by giving proper expression to its creative character.
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No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.
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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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By God! I will not tell you more to-day, Judge any way you will - what matters it?
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Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining.
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Yea, I have looked, and seen November there The changeless seal of change it seemed to be, Fair death of things that, living once, were fair Bright sign of loneliness too great for me, Strange image of the dread eternity, In whose void patience how can these have part, These outstretched feverish hands, this restless heart?
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Don't think too much of style.
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That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.
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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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