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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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

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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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Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. – Wallace Stevens

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I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes. – Mark Strand

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Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. – Author Unknown

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No poem is easily grasped so why should any reader expect fast results? – John Barton

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