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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in. - E. Housman Quotes

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

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. - 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.

English Poet Meaning

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. - E. Housman Quotes

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.

White in the moon the long road lies. - E. Housman Quotes

White in the moon the long road lies.

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. - E. Housman Quotes

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.

Land War

About the woodlands I will go / To see the cherry hung with snow. - E. Housman Quotes

About the woodlands I will go / To see the cherry hung with snow.

The fairies break their dances / And leave the printed lawn. - E. Housman Quotes

The fairies break their dances / And leave the printed lawn.

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. - E. Housman Quotes

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.

Discrimination English Poet

And silence sounds no worse than cheers / After death has stopped the ears. - E. Housman Quotes

And silence sounds no worse than cheers / After death has stopped the ears.

Death

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / Is hung with bloom along the bough. - E. Housman Quotes

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / Is hung with bloom along the bough.

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