Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the failure tires. The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.
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. . . the waste even in a fortunate life, the isolation of a life rich in intimacy, cannot but be felt deeply, and is the central feeling of tragedy. And anything of value must accept this because it must not prostitute itself its strength is to be prepared to waste itself, if it does not get the opportunity.William Empson
Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.
William Empson
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.
William Empson
A humanist, as I understand the term, says, This world is good enough for me, if only I can be good enough for it.
William Empson
The News, the conferences that leer,the creeping fog, the civil traps.These are what force you into fear.
William Empson
My heart pumps yet the poison draught of you.
William Empson
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