William Empson
William Empson
Sir William Empsonwas an English literary critic and poet, widely influential for his practice of closely reading literary works, a practice fundamental to New Criticism. His best-known work is his first, Seven Types of Ambiguity, published in 1930...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth27 September 1906
involves life oneself solved
. . . life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.
english-poet
You don't want madhouse and the whole thing there.
cannot english-poet heart standing
The heart of standing is you cannot fly.
pumps
My heart pumps yet the poison draught of you.
boys english-poet
Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.
absorb admit asking attending cultures dissolve judgement natural stand
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.
absorb admit asking attending cultures dissolve hesitation judgement nations natural stand
Attending there let us absorb the cultures of nations And 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.
brother careful cry doll few flesh mine shall sister unity whose
So your flesh shall be part of mine And part of mine be yours. Brother and sister we shall be Whose unity endures. Always the sister doll will cry, Made in these careful ways, Cry on and on, Come back to me, Come back, in a few days.
good understand
A humanist, as I understand the term, says, "This world is good enough for me, if only I can be good enough for it.
civil creeping fear force
The "News," the conferences that leer,the creeping fog, the civil traps.These are what force you into fear.
civil creeping force
The "News," the conferences that leer, the creeping fog, the civil traps. These are what force you into fear.
pain
It is the pain, it is the pain, endures.
seems till
It seems unpleasantly refinedTo put things off till someone knows.
deep happen remember
It is this deep blankness is the real thing strange.The more things happen to you the more you can'tTell or remember even what they were.