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A. E. Housman Quote - Oh, ’tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.

Oh, ’tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.

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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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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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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but and absolutely marvellous minor poet, I think, and a great scholar.
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Ten thousand times I’ve done my best and all’s to do again.
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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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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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Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.
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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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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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And malt does more than Milton can to justify God’s ways to man.
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When the journey’s over, There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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Oh, ’tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts. And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts.
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