Architecture Quote by William Morris

“I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.” quote by William Morris — Download Open image

“I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to lose.”

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I can't enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that things are in a muddle, and I have…

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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,…

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“Do not be deceived by the outside appearance of order in our plutocratic society. It fares with it as it does with the older norms of war, that there is an outside look of quite wonderful order about it; how neat and comforting the steady march of the regiment; how quiet and respectable the sergeants look; how clean the polished…

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I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

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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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In Prison Wearily, drearily, Half the day long, Flap the great banners High over the stone; Strangely and eerily Sounds the wind's song, Bending the banner-poles. While, all alone, Watching the loophole's spark, Lie I, with life all dark, Feet tethered, hands fettered Fast to the stone, The grim walls, square lettered With prisoned men's groan. Still strain the banner-poles…

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Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

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“Now let us go, love, down the winding stair, With fingers intertwined...”

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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…

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“October O love, turn from the changing sea and gaze, Down these grey slopes, upon the year grown old, A-dying 'mid the autumn-scented haze That hangeth o'er the hollow in the wold, Where the wind-bitten ancient elms infold Grey church, long barn, orchard, and red-roofed stead, Wrought in dead days for men a long while dead. Come down, O love;…

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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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“Have nothing in your house you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”

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