Empson

Famous quotes containing the word empson:

    “Liberal hopefulness
    Regards death as a mere border to an improving picture.”
    —William Empson (1906–1984)

    “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.”
    —William Empson (1906–1984)

    “Hours before dawn we were woken by the quake.
    My house was on a cliff. The thing could take
    Bookloads off shelves, break bottles in a row.
    Then the long pause and then the bigger shake.
    It seemed the best thing to be up and go.”
    —William Empson (1906–1984)