The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.
A. E. HOUSMANThe 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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All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
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All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.
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Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.
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Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.
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The laws of God, the laws of man, He may keep that will and can; Not I: let God and man decree Laws for themselves and not for me.
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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill.
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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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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.
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When the journey’s over, There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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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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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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