Quote by A.E. Housman
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadv

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. – A.E. Housman

Other quotes by A.E. Housman

We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world. – A.E. Housman

Category:
Idealism
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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. – A.E. Housman

Category:
Remembrance
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Poetry
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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. – Rita Dove

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Poetry

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. – Edgar Allan Poe

Category:
Poetry

The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology. – Basil Bunting

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Poetry

If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. – A. E. Housman

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Poetry

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Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman. – George Santayana, The Life of Reason

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My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, were still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be. – Michael Caine

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movies

When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own. – Author Unknown

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I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres. – Carrie Brownstein

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