"I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other poets have been."

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Source : William Empson (2000). “The complete poems”, Lane, Allen

William Empson

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“Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.”
“Making a record's a real fight for me. I'm constantly fighting with this thing inside of me that says I should be sitting in a room with Matthew Shipp or I should have Han Bennink on drums or this song should be playing for the next 20 minutes in my head, not a silly little pop song. It's constant.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Synchronizing mind and body is not a concept or a random technique someone thought up for self-improvement. Rather, it is a basic principle of how to be a human being.”
“Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.”
“I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.”
“According to the 'food waste pyramid', ensuring that food is eaten by people is the top priority. Failing that, the next best thing is to feed it to farm animals.”

Source : "Food redistribution is a win-win solution for food waste" by Tristram Stuart, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2012.
“It always amazes me when people go rent horses and ride them. You mean you want me to pay you to ride a horse?”

Source : "William Lucking rode many a motorcycle in films". Interview with Peter Hartlaub, www.sfgate.com. November 9, 2008.
“Did You wrap yourself inside the unexpected so we might know that Love would go that far?”

Source : Song: Be Born In Me

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