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    William Empson

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    The heart of standing is that you cannot fly. ↗


    — William Empson

    #inspirational #inspirational

    Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men. ↗


    — William Empson

    #long #makes #men #short #stakes

    My heart pumps yet the poison draught of you. ↗


    — William Empson

    #heart #poison #pumps #yet #you

    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. ↗


    — William Empson

    #effort #failure #fills #kills #nor

    It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows. ↗


    — William Empson

    #off #put #refined #seems #someone

    Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end. ↗


    — William Empson

    #waiting

    You don't want madhouse and the whole thing there. ↗


    — William Empson

    #thing #want #whole #you

    The heart of standing is you cannot fly. ↗


    — William Empson

    #fly #heart #standing #you






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    In 1925 Empson won a scholarship to Magdalene College Cambridge where he read Mathematics gaining a First for his Part I but a disappointing 2. i for his Part II.

    Jonathan Bate has said that the three greatest English Literary critics of the 18th 19th and 20th centuries are Johnson Hazlitt and Empson "not least because they are the funniest. His best-known work is his first Seven Types of Ambiguity publiWilliam Empsond in 1930. ".

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