Quotes about William Empson

My heart pumps yet the poison draught of you.

#William Empson

Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.

#William Empson

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

#William Empson

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

#William Empson

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

#William Empson

The heart of standing is you cannot fly.

#William Empson

Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills. It is not the effort nor the...

#William Empson