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Witter Bynner Quotes

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

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

Leadership, People, Boss

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

Memories, Misers

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

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

Mistake, Decision, World

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

Knowledge, Men, Sick

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

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

May, Power Of Words, Used

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

Caressing reassures lovers that their love endures.

Love, Lovers, Endure

Witter Bynner (1936). “Selected Poems”

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.

Heart, Names, Disease

Witter Bynner (1936). “Selected Poems”

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 . . .

Men, Different, Matter

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

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

Love, Love Is, Dancer

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