"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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Poetry
― A. E. Housman
More From A. E. Housman
- "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."
More In Poetry
- "If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."― Emily Dickinson
- "All one’s inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry."― Gustave Flaubert
- "The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it’s not all about characters, relationships and themes, it’s also about place and the poetry of place. It’s about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across."― Mike Leigh