William Morris Quotes
Top 55 wise famous quotes and sayings by William Morris
William Morris Famous Quotes & Sayings
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[Nature] ever bearing witness against man that he has deliberately chosen ugliness instead of beauty ...
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.
Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.
Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining.
Love makes clear the eyes that else would never see: "Love makes blind the eyes to all but me and thee.
It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
Nothing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.
The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make.
What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent?
Late February days; and now, at last,
Might you have thought that
Winter's woe was past;
So fair the sky was and so soft the air.
Might you have thought that
Winter's woe was past;
So fair the sky was and so soft the air.
Death have we hated, knowing not what it meant; Life we have loved, through green leaf and through sere, Though still the less we knew of its intent.
It is for him that is lonely or in prison to dream of fellowship, but for him that is of a fellowship to do and not to dream.
Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order.
All rooms ought to look as if they were lived in, and to have so to say, a friendly welcome ready for the incomer.
The true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals & miserable men.
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; art has remembered the people, because they created.
Talk of inspiration is sheer nonsense; there is to such thing. It is mere a matter of craftsmanship.
If a chap can't compose an epic poem while he's weaving tapestry, he had better shut up, he'll never do any good at all.
If i were asked to say what is at once the most important production of Art and the thing most to be longed for, I should answer, A beautiful House.