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His folly has not fellow
Beneath the blue of day
That gives to man or woman
His heart and soul away.

— A. E. Housman A Shropshire Lad (1896)

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Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

My heart always warms to people who do not come to see me, especially Americans, to whom it seems to be more of an effort.

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.

Last Poems (1922)

The house of delusions is cheap to build, but draughty to live in, and ready at any instant to fall.

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out. [...] and perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

The Name and Nature of Poetry (1933)

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