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My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another.

William Morris

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William Morris
Age: 62 †
Born: 1834
Born: March 24
Died: 1896
Died: October 3
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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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If there is a reason for keeping the wall very quiet, choose a pattern that works all over without pronounced lines...Put very succinctly, architectural effect depends upon a nice balance of horizontal, vertical and oblique. No rules can say how much of each so nothing can really take the place of feeling and good judgement.
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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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Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining.
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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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A pattern is either right or wrong...it is no stronger than its weakest point.
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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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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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As to the garden, it seems to me its chief fruit is-blackbirds.
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I am going your way, so let us go hand in hand. You help me and I'll help you. We shall not be here very long ... so let us help one another while we may.
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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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I know a little garden close Set thick with lily and red rose, Where I would wander if I might From dewy dawn to dewy night. And have one with me wandering.
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It is for him that is lonely or in prison to dream of fellowship, but for him that is of a fellowship to do and not to dream.
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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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Large or small, [the garden] should be orderly and rich. It should be well fenced from the outside world. It should by no means imitate either the willfulness or the wildness of nature, but should look like a thing never to be seen except near the house. It should, in fact, look like part of the house.
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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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So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die that is to say, civilization will die.
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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 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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Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
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