Author

A. E. Housman

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“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.”— A. E. Housman
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“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.”— A. E. Housman
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“If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.”— A. E. Housman