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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

Category:
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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A.E. Housman
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I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rockn roll. – Adrian Mitchell

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If Rilke cut himself shaving, he would bleed poetry. – Stephen Spender, about Rainer Maria Rilke

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She was the Judy Garland of American poetry. – James Dickey

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Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well. – Ajay Naidu

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I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them – you dont even have to talk. You dont have to do anything but really be there with them. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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