A moment’s thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.
A. E. HOUSMANI 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.
More A. E. Housman Quotes
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There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high; The tree of man was never quiet: Then ’twas the Roman, now ’tis I.
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Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea And still the sea is salt.
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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To justify God’s ways to man.
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The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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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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Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.
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That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
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Good religious poetry… is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.
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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
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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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Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill.
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I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
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