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

Author: A. E. Housman - English Poet
  Think , Nature , Ability , Content


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.

Author: A. E. Housman - English Poet
  Sometimes , Will , Poetry , Understanding


The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.

Author: A. E. Housman - English Poet
  Me , Will , Man , God


Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

Author: A. E. Housman - English Poet
  More , Man , God , Than


Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

Author: A. E. Housman - English Poet
  Life , Lie , Men , Lose


And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

Author: A. E. Housman - English Poet
  More , Man , God , Than


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

Author: A. E. Housman - English Poet
  He , Man , Criticism , Average


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

Author: A. E. Housman - English Poet
  More , Poetry , Than , Rat


If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

Author: A. E. Housman - English Poet
  Poetry , Memory , Skin , Line


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