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That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.
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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If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for, I should answer, A beautiful House.
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There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly 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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Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life.
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When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.
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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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Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.
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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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Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
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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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The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
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Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer nigh! The bitter wind makes not the victory vain. Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky.
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Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or fold, All gleams but naught doth glisten, but the far-off unseen sea. Forget days past, heart broken, put all memory by! No grief on the green hillside, no pity in the sky, Joy that may not be spoken fills mead and flower and tree.
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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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So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright, and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy isle of bliss Midmost the beating of the steely sea.
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There is no single policy to which one can point and say - this built the Morris business. I should think I must have made not less than one thousand decisions in each of the last ten years. The success of a business is the result of the proportion of right decisions by the executive in charge.
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Don't think too much of style.
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My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another.
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We are only the trustees for those who come after us.
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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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