White in the moon the long road lies.
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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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.
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Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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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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Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.
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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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I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
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Tomorrow, more’s the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.
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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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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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The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.
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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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The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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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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