The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
A. E. HOUSMANJune 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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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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When the journey’s over/There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.
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Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill.
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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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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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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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There, like the wind through woods in riot, Through him the gale of life blew high; The tree of man was never quiet: Then ’twas the Roman, now ’tis I.
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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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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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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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The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man’s deceiver Was never mine.
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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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