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William Empson has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The heart of standing is that you cannot fly.
• It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.
• Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.
• Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste…
• Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one…
• Poetry contains nothing haphazard.
• The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own.
• This world is good enough for me, if only I can be good enough for it.
• Poets, on the face of it, have either got to be easier or to write their own notes; readers have either got…
• Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.
• The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others.
• The heart of standing is you cannot fly.

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