The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems

“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?””

— William Morris

“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.””

— William Morris

“When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.””

— William Morris

“The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.””

— William Morris

“But what I do I do because I like to do.””

— William Morris

“Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.””

— William Morris

“It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.””

— William Morris

“I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.””

— William Morris

“Oh it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh. The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again crunched like candy thunder. Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of silk round my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver. I was in such bliss, my brothers.””

— William Morris