Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
A. E. HOUSMANAnd silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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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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Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill.
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I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
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Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.
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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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They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man’s.
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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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Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man’s deceiver Was never mine.
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He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.
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And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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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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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
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