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A. E. Housman

" Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land. "

Land , Giving , Grief

related quotes

" That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again. "

Land , Nostalgia

" All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use. "

Use

" The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in. "

House , Integrity

" Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it. "

Poetry , Way , Said

" I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one. "

Right , Words

" Look not in my eyes, for fear they mirror true the sight I see, And there you find your face too clear and love it and be lost like me. "

Love , Eye , Mirrors

" I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made. "

World , Stranger , Made

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

Funny , Ignorance , Humor

" A moment's thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process. "

Moments , Long

" If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude. "

Men , Science

" When the journey's over/There'll be time enough to sleep. "

Sleep , Journey , Enough

" The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind. "

Happiness , Mind , Joy

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