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Ten thousand times I’ve done my best and all’s to do again.

A. E. Housman

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
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Ability Himself Nature Thinking Writing
I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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Choose Rid Words
Good religious poetry… is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.
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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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Hands Life Myself Stand Stay Ways Wonder
Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet, it will come to you naturally and you will pick up all you need from reading poetry.
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Book Learning Poet Poetry Reading
Ten thousand times I’ve done my best and all’s to do again.
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Effort Myself Time
I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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Agree Discuss Fact Feeling One Liner Right Word Wrong
They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.
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Concur Glory Knowledge Literature Man Masterwork Men P Writing
The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
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Break Dance Leaving Print
With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.
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Friendship Heart Maidan
Tomorrow, more’s the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.
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Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
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Business Life Men Motivation Think Thinking Young
All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
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Human Knowledge Precious Service
I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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Animal Definition Myself Poetry
I 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.
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Emotion Poetry Reader Transmit
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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Arrogant Greatness Hero Himself Lonely Man Misery Poet

Ten thousand times I’ve done my best and all’s to do again.

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