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.


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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN
And how am I to face the odds, Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid, In a world...
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN
And how am I to face the odds, Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid, In a world ...
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN
This is for all ill-treated fellows - Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they're in trouble A...
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN
From far, from eve and morning And yon twelve-winded sky, The stuff of life to knit me Blew hither: ...
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN
Ensanguining the skies, How heavily it dies, Into the west away; Past touch and sight and sound, Not...
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN
That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot...
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN
Little is the luck I've had, And oh, 'tis comfort small - To think that many another lad - Has had n...
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN
And malt does more than Milton can To justify the ways of God to man
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN
Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN
You are not meant to serve time. Time is meant to serve you. Become the master of your now
E'YEN A. GARDNER
To express yourself in a creative way you don't need structure you need an empty mind.
E'YEN A. GARDNER
The life that I have lived was no more than a mask covering the real me. What has happened was not t...
E'YEN A. GARDNER
Oneness with God is not a dream, it is the only reality. Everything else is an illusion.
E'YEN A. GARDNER
Life is simple, just be yourself.
E'YEN A. GARDNER
Come out of hiding, don't be afraid to be yourself.
E'YEN A. GARDNER
When we know Love, fear has no value in our presence. There is no pressure to perform and mask our h...
E'YEN A. GARDNER
However, if we don’t confront the seed of lies, it gives place for them to take root in us and we ...
E'YEN A. GARDNER
If there is no door to your dream, create one.
E'YEN A. GARDNER
Patience is learned through waiting
E'YEN A. GARDNER
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS
To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CUMMINGS
Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS
Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS
I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more...
E. E. CUMMINGS
Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CUMMINGS
I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGS
At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CUMMINGS
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CUMMINGS
Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS
It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS
The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS
Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. CUMMINGS
Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
E E CUMMINGS
Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS
It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS
He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS
Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS
To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS
To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E E CUMMINGS
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CUMMINGS
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E. E. CUMMINGS
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS
A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
E. E. CUMMINGS