Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
A. E. HOUSMANThe fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
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Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man’s deceiver Was never mine.
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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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Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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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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Tomorrow, more’s the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.
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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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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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Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
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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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Ten thousand times I’ve done my best and all’s to do again.
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