The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
A. E. HOUSMANI could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
More A. E. Housman Quotes
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And how am I to face the odds Of man’s bedevilment and God’s? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
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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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Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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White in the moon the long road lies.
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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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Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill.
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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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There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.
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The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers’ meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.
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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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Who made the world I cannot tell; ‘Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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When the journey’s over, There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
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