I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
A. E. HOUSMANAnd malt does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man.
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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. 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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Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.
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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
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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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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
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Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
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And malt does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man.
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Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.
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With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.
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They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.
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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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There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.
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When the journey’s over/There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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