Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.
A. E. HOUSMANPoetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.
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Oh, ’tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.
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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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The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.
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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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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength, and struck.
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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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On Wenlock Edge the wood’s in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.
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Look not in my eyes, for fear They mirror true the sight I see, And there you find your face too clear And love it and be lost like me.
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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill.
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When the journey’s over, There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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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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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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