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I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.
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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That talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense there is no such thing. It is a mere matter of craftsmanship.
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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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Between complete socialism and communism there is no difference whatever in my mind.Communism is in fact the completion of socialism when that ceases to be militant and becomes triumphant, it will be communism.
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Earth, left silent by the wind of night,Seems shrunken 'neath the gray unmeasured height.
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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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My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another.
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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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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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Late February days and now, at last, Might you have thought that Winter's woe was past So fair the sky was and so soft the air.
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The heart desires, the hand refrains. The Godhead fires, the soul attains.
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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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The wind is not helpless for any man's need, Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed.
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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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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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