In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
A. E. HOUSMANAnd silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet, it will come to you naturally and you will pick up all you need from reading poetry.
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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
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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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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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Oh, ’tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.
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Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.
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And malt does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man.
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But if you ever come to a road where danger; Or guilt or anguish or shame’s to share. Be good to the lad who loves you true, And the soul that was born to die for you; And whistle and I’ll be there.
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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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Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
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Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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To justify God’s ways to man.
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The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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