A E Housman Quotes & Sayings

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Suggest Revision: 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.
 
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Suggest Revision: 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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Suggest Revision: Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
 
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Suggest Revision: 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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Suggest Revision: The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
 
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 Delusion quotes 
Suggest Revision: The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
 
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Suggest Revision: The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
 
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Suggest Revision: 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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Suggest Revision: And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
 
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Suggest Revision: 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.
 
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