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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

A. E. Housman

Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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Drink Fellow Hurt
I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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Animal Definition Myself Poetry
And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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Ears Earth Silence Worst
All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.
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Knot Lover Sever Tie Untrue
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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Eyes Face Fear Lost Love Myself Sight
This is for all ill-treated fellows Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they’re in trouble And I am not.
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All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
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Human Knowledge Precious Service
His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.
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Day Heart Himself Man Soul Woman
Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
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Free Funny Humor Ignorance Irksome Object Plan Time
Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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Business Chance Luck Motivation One Liner Think Thinking Trouble Young
Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea And still the sea is salt.
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Die Drop Fall Sky Stars
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
I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
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Afraid Myself Stranger World
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
Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill.
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Goodness Sick World
Good religious poetry… is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.
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