A. E. Housman Quotes

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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Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; / Breath's a ware that will not keep. / Up, lad; when the journey's over / There'll be time enough for sleep. - A. E. Housman

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