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A. E. Housman Quote - I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.

I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.

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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.
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They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man’s.
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They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.
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Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
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June suns, you cannot store them To warm the winter’s cold, The lad that hopes for heaven Shall fill his mouth with mould.
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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
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Ten thousand times I’ve done my best and all’s to do again.
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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.
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Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.
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Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill.
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When the journey’s over, There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
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