Witter Bynner
American poet, writer and scholar (1881-1968)
Harold Witter Bynner (August 10, 1881 – June 1, 1968) was an American poet, writer and academic.
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Quotes
edit- I am a miser of my memories of you
- And will not spend them.
- Coins, in The Beloved Stranger: Two Books of Song & a Divertisement for the Unknown Lover, 1919.
- The core and the surface
Are essentially the same
Words making them seem different
Only to express appearance.
If name be needed, wonder names them both:
From wonder into wonder existence opens.- Translation of Laozi's Tao Te Ching.
- The Way of Life, According to Laotzu, 1944.
- A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick.
- The Way of Life, According to Laotzu, 1944.