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Letter "A" » A. E. Housman Quotes
«The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.»
«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.»
Author: A. E. Housman
(Poet, Scholar)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
almost, draw, extinguish, extinguishes, extinguishing, inadvisable, meaning, perfect, poetry, understanding, usually
«Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; / Breath's a ware that will not keep. / Up, lad; when the journey's over / There'll be time enough for sleep.»
«White in the moon the long road lies.»
«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.»
«About the woodlands I will go / To see the cherry hung with snow.»
«The fairies break their dances / And leave the printed lawn.»
«Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.»
Author: A. E. Housman
(Poet, Scholar)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
blunt, blunted, blunting, blunts, discrimination, mellow, mellows, perception, Personal Best, quicken, quickening, quickens, reader, sharpen, The Quickening
«And silence sounds no worse than cheers / After death has stopped the ears.»
«Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / Is hung with bloom along the bough.»
Author: A. E. Housman
(Poet, Scholar)
| Keywords:
bloom, bough, cherry, cherry tree, hung, loveliest
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