Famous Quotes | Attending there let us absorb...
Attending there let us absorb the cultures of nations
And dissolve into our judgement all their codes.
Then, being clogged, with a natural hesitation
(People are continually asking one the way out),
Let us stand here and admit that we have no road.
- William Empson
Attribution: William Empson (1906–1984), British poet, critic. Homage to the British Museum (l. 8–12). . . Faber Book of Modern Verse, The. Michael Roberts, ed. (4th ed. revised by Peter Porter, 1982) Faber and Faber.
Categories: Critic, Knowledge
