William Empson Quotations

It is this deep blankness is the real thing strange.The more things happen to you the more you can'tTell or remember even what they were.

It is this deep blankness is the real thing strange. The more things happen to you the more you can't Tell or remember even what they were.

It seemed the best thing to be up and go.

. . . life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

You don't want madhouse and the whole thing there.

The heart of standing is you cannot fly.

My heart pumps yet the poison draught of you.

Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.

Attending there let us absorb the cultures of nationsAnd dissolve into our judgement all their codes.Then, being clogged, with a natural hesitation(People are continually asking one the way out),Let us stand here and admit that we have no road.

Attending there let us absorb the cultures of nations And dissolve into our judgement all their codes. Then, being clogged, with a natural hesitation (People are continually asking one the way out), Let us stand here and admit that we have no road.