Quotes by William Empson

• It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.
• My heart pumps yet the poison draught of 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.
• The heart of standing is you cannot fly.
• Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.
• You don't want madhouse and the whole thing there.
• Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.