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Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.

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And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

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I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.

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Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.

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Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.

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Why, if 'tis dancing you would be, There's brisker pipes than poetry. Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why was Burton built on Trent? Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man. Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink For fellows whom it hurts to think: Look into the pewter pot To see the world as the world's not.

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Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires,what farms are those? that is the land of lost content I can see it shining plain the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

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Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.

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Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.

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Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but and absolutely marvellous minor poet, I think, and a great scholar.

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Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

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With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.

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A moment's thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.

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All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.

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Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

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If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude.

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When the journey's over/There'll be time enough to sleep.

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