A. E. Housman Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Rats Quotes

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

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Let your poem be kept nine years.

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I should tell you that honestly, on my honour of a Nearwicked, I always think in a wordworth's of that primed favourite continental poet, Daunty, Gouty and Shopkeeper, A.G., whom the generality admoyers in this that is and that this is to come.

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Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets... there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word.

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It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting.

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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

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The poetry of speech.

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Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

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The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets.

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What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.

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For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.

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Reality, the oppressor's tongue.

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Poets are born, not paid.

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Till Human voices wake us, and we drown.

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Truth shines the brighter, clad in verse.

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When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

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Summer's lease hath all too short a date.

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Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]

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For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

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Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

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