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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Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
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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.
A. E. Housman
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.
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I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
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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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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.
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Almost,
Draw,
Even,
Extinguish,
May,
Meaning,
Out,
Perfect,
Pleasure,
Poetry,
Sometimes,
Understanding,
Will
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