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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This quote is just one of 12 total A. E. Housman quotes in our collection. A. E. Housman is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.
And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.
This quote is just one of 12 total A. E. Housman quotes in our collection. A. E. Housman is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.