Malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.
~ A. E. Housman
The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
I a stranger and afraid in a world I never made.
Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out . but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.
Nature not content with denying him the ability to think has endowed him with the ability to write.
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.
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.
