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William Morris
Age: 62 †
Born: 1834
Born: March 24
Died: 1896
Died: October 3
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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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The wind is not helpless for any man's need, Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed.
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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 have said as much as that the aim of art was to destroy the curse of labour by making work the pleasurable satisfaction of our impulse towards energy, and giving to that energy hope of producing something worth its exercise.
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When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.
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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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The reward of labour is life. Is that not enough?
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Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung.
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Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.
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Speak but one word to me.
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We are only the trustees for those who come after us.
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You may hang your walls with tapestry insread of whitewash or paper or you may cover them with mosaic or have them frescoed by a great painter: all this is not luxury, if it be done for beauty's sake, and not for show: it does not break our golden rule: Have nothing in your houses which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
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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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Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining.
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My work is the embodiment of dreams in one form or another.
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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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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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O thrush, your song is passing sweet, But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young.
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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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I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.
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