Witter Bynner quotes

“A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.”
-- Witter Bynner

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“I am a miser of my memories of you And will not spend them.”
-- Witter Bynner

Source : Witter Bynner (1919). “The Beloved Stranger: Two Books of Song & a Divertisement for the Unknown Lover”

#Memories Quotes #Misers Quotes

“The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.”
-- Witter Bynner

#Mistake Quotes #Decision Quotes #World Quotes

“A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick.”
-- Witter Bynner

Source : "The Way of Life, According to Laotzu". Book by Witter Bynner, 1944.

#Knowledge Quotes #Men Quotes #Sick Quotes

“Name me no names for my disease, With uninforming breath; I tell you I am none of these, But homesick unto death —Homesick for hills that I had known, For brooks that I had crossed, Before I met this flesh and bone And followed and was lost… .And though they break my heart at last, Yet name no name of ills. Say only, “Here is where he passed, Seeking again those hills.”
-- Witter Bynner

Source : Witter Bynner (1936). “Selected Poems”

#Heart Quotes #Names Quotes #Disease Quotes

“Caressing reassures lovers that their love endures.”
-- Witter Bynner

Source : Witter Bynner (1936). “Selected Poems”

#Love Quotes #Lovers Quotes #Endure Quotes

“O, high the happy bosom heaves When love is in the dancer!”
-- Witter Bynner

#Love Quotes #Love Is Quotes #Dancer Quotes

“Words came out of the womb of matter; And whether a man dispassionately Sees to the core of life Or passionately Sees the surface, The core and the surface Are essentially the same, Words making them seem different . . .”
-- Witter Bynner

Source : Witter Bynner, James Kraft (1995). “The Selected Witter Bynner: Poems, Plays, Translations, Prose, and Letters”

#Men Quotes #Matter Quotes #Different Quotes

“Existence is beyond the power of words to define: Terms may be used But are none of them absolute.”
-- Witter Bynner

Source : Witter Bynner, James Kraft (1995). “The Selected Witter Bynner: Poems, Plays, Translations, Prose, and Letters”

#May Quotes #Power Of Words Quotes #Used Quotes

“There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.”

“Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.”

“Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.”

“I'm my own boss and my boss is a total ass.”

“I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn't trying to prove I'm boss. I know I'm boss.”

“When big-time blunders occur in any workplace, the boss or bosses usually are at fault, not clerks or secretaries or salespeople. Not reporters, the buck stops with the boss.”

“When I think about what sort of person I would most like to have on a retainer, I think it would be a boss. A boss who could tell me what to do, because that makes everything easy when you're working.”

“The best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life.”

“There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.”

“To be a leader means to be able to move masses”