It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with us that we seemed to have time for everything.
William MorrisI half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.
William MorrisTo happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air.
William MorrisSimplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside; or a grimy palace amid the same with a regiment of housemaids always working to smear the dirt together so that it may be unnoticed; which, think you, is the most refined, the most fit for a gentleman of those two dwellings?
William Morris