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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.

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
Perfect, Poetry, Understanding
"The Name and Nature of Poetry". The Leslie Stephen Lecture, Cambridge University, May 09, 1933.

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

A. E. Housman
Poetry, Rats, Terriers
A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.153, Delphi Classics

Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most readers, when they think they are admiring poetry, are deceived by inability to analyse their sensations, and that they are really admiring, not the poetry of the passage before them, but something else in it, which they like better than poetry.

A. E. Housman
Art, Thinking, Poetry
A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.169, Delphi Classics

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