16 William Henry Davies Quotes

William Henry Davies quotes

1. Autumn grows old: he, like some simple one, In Summer's castaway is strangely clad

2. The collier's wife had four tall sons Brought from the pit's mouth dead, And crushed from foot to head

3. From my own kind I only learn How foolish comfort is

4. Thou shalt not laugh, thou shalt not romp, Let's grimly kiss with bated breath; As quietly and solemnly As Life when it is kissing Death.

5. They sniffed, poor things, for their green fields, They cried so loud I could not sleep: For fifty thousand shillings down I would not sail again with sheep.

6. Sweet Stay-at-Home, sweet Well-content, Thou knowest of no strange continent; Thou hast not felt thy bosom keep A gentle motion with the deep; Thou hast not sailed in Indian seas, Where scent comes forth in every breeze.

7. What sweet, what happy days had I, When dreams made Time Eternity!

8. It was the Rainbow gave thee birth, And left thee all her lovely hues

9. Go you and, with such glorious hues, Live with proud peacocks in green parks

10. I also love a quiet place That's green, away from all mankind; A lonely pool, and let a tree Sigh with her bosom over me.

11. What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare

12. No time to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars, like skies at night. No time to turn at Beauty's glance, And watch her feet, how they can dance.

13. this extraordinary and memorable being, who, for all his humility, bore about him something of the primitive splendour and directness of the Elizabethan age

1. “The hope is that a fundamental flaw in our current political economy may be surmounted, without confronting any serious political–economic questions. Psychology is very often how societies avoid looking in the mirror.”

2. “The mood-tracking technologies, sentiment analysis algorithms and stress-busting meditation techniques are put to work in the service of certain political and economic interests.”

3. “Until relatively recently, most scientific attempts to know or manipulate how someone else was feeling occurred within formally identifiable institutions, such as psychology laboratories, hospitals, workplaces, focus groups, or some such. This is no longer the case. In July 2014, Facebook published an academic paper containing details of how it had successfully altered hundreds of thousands of its users’ moods, by manipulating their news feeds.14 There was an outcry that this had been done in a clandestine fashion. But as the dust settled, the anger turned to anxiety: would Facebook bother to publish such a paper in future, or just get on with the experiment anyway and keep the results to themselves? Monitoring”