And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
A. E. HOUSMANI do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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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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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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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.
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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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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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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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Clay lies still, but blood’s a rover; Breath’s aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey’s over then there’ll be time enough to sleep.
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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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June suns, you cannot store them To warm the winter’s cold, The lad that hopes for heaven Shall fill his mouth with mould.
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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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Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
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When the journey’s over/There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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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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