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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
A. E. Housman
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A. E. Housman
Age: 77 †
Born: 1859
Born: January 1
Died: 1936
Died: January 1
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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.
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Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires,what farms are those? that is the land of lost content I can see it shining plain the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
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Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
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This is for all ill-treated fellows Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they're in trouble And I am not.
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Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder So leave alone the grass That I am under.
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Tomorrow, more's the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.
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June suns, you cannot store them To warm the winter's cold, The lad that hopes for heaven Shall fill his mouth with mould.
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We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.
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I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer - is the peculiar function of poetry.
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All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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