More from William Morris
- “The Beauty of Life”, a lecture before the Birmingham Society of Arts and School of Design (19 February 1880), later published in Hopes and Fears for Art: Five Lectures Delivered in Birmingham, London, and Nottingham, 1878–1881 (1882)
I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
The Decorative Arts (1877)Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.
“The Prospects of Architecture in Civilisation”, lecture at the London Institution (10 March 1880), in Hopes and Fears for Art (1882)
More about poetry
T. S. Eliot1888–1965“Philip Massinger”, a biographical essay, in The Sacred Wood (1920)Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Reflections on the Psalms
