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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

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Idealism
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The good old times — all times when old are good. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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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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Let us love nobly, and live, and add again years and years unto years, till we attain to write threescore: this is the second of our reign. – John Donne

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

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