I think that to transfuse emotion – not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader’s sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer – is the peculiar function of poetry.
A. E. HOUSMANEarth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
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When the journey’s over/There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.
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We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.
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Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.
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Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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To justify God’s ways to man.
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White in the moon the long road lies.
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When the journey’s over, There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers’ meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.
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Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man’s deceiver Was never mine.
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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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