I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
From A. E. Housman
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.
The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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.
That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
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