A E Housman Quotes & Sayings

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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.

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.

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

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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.

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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

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