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I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist) and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
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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Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him behold, Child to mother, sheep to fold, Bird to nest from wandering wide: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.
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Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.
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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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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
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And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
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I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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When the journey's over/There'll be time enough to sleep.
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Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.
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