You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover’s say, And happy is the lover. ‘Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.
A. E. HOUSMANPoetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man’s deceiver Was never mine.
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A moment’s thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.
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Oh, ’tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.
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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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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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He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.
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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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When the journey’s over/There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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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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Good religious poetry… is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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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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