I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
A. E. HOUSMANWho 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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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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Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.
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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.
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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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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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There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.
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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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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
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That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
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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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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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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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All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
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