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...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things.
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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Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining.
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From out the throng and stress of lies, From out the painful noise of sighs, One voice of comfort seems to rise: It is the meaner part that dies.
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Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.
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Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
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When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.
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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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And the deeds that ye do upon this earth, it is for fellowship's sake that ye do them.
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Give me love and work - these two only.
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We are only the trustees for those who come after us.
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It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with us that we seemed to have time for everything.
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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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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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That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.
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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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I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.
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There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.
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