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That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happ

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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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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Poetry
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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 wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. – Callimachus

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O rose, who dares to name thee?
No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet,
But pale, and hard, and dry, as stubblewheat,–
Kept seven years in a drawer, thy titles shame thee. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Remembrance

Eulogies are like babies. Theyre more pleasurable to create than to deliver. – Bob Blazich

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Remembrance

I dont like nostalgia unless its mine. – Lou Reed

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If we are not free, no one will respect us. – Abdul Kalam

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Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized. – Joseph Sobran

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