“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
Author: A. E. Housman
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, A. E. Housman
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Experience has taught me, when I am
“Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.”
— A. E. Housman
Author: A. E. Housman
Category: experience
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Experience has taught me, when I am
“Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.”
— A. E. Housman
Author: A. E. Housman
Category: morning
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If a line of poetry strays into
“If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.”
— A. E. Housman
Author: A. E. Housman
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, A. E. Housman
Experience has taught me, when I am
“Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.”
— A. E. Housman
Author: A. E. Housman
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, A. E. Housman