Witter Bynner Quotes

• A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.

  Witter Bynner

  Leadership, People, Boss

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• I am a miser of my memories of you
  And will not spend them.

  Witter Bynner

  Memories, Misers

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

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• The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.

  Witter Bynner

  Mistake, Decision, World

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• A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick.

  Witter Bynner

  Knowledge, Men, Sick

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

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• Existence is beyond the power of words to define:
  Terms may be used
  But are none of them absolute.

  Witter Bynner

  May, Power Of Words, Used

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

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• Caressing reassures lovers that their love endures.

  Witter Bynner

  Love, Lovers, Endure

  Witter Bynner (1936). “Selected Poems”

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• 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

  Heart, Names, Disease

  Witter Bynner (1936). “Selected Poems”

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• O, high the happy bosom heaves When love is in the dancer!

  Witter Bynner

  Love, Love Is, Dancer

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• 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

  Men, Different, Matter

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

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