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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

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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

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Remembrance
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A.E. Housman
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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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I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge. – Jeffery Deaver

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I want to write a book of poetry, as well as childrens stories. – Bobby McFerrin

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Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I dont care thats what poetry is supposed to do. – Diane Wakoski

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[T]rue poets… can pierce through the clouds to the light, and save the purity of their inspiration from the general disorder. It is refreshing to read them, delightful to steep ourselves in their truthful poetry. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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