Witter Bynner Quotes

United States, Poet
August 10, 1881 – June, 1, 196.

Harold Witter Bynner, also known by the pen name Emanuel Morgan, was an American poet, writer and scholar, known for his long residence in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and association with other literary figures there.

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
- Disease
- Hills
- Seeking
I am a miser of my memories of you And will not spend them.

Witter Bynner
- Memories
- Misers
The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.

Witter Bynner
- Problem
- Decision
- Mistake
A leader is best when people barely know that he exists.

Witter Bynner
- People
- Leader
- Exists
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
- Different
- Matter
- Seems
A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick.

Witter Bynner
- Knowledge
- Knows
- Sick

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

Witter Bynner