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LAW & HISTORY > scholar, poet > A E Housman
Even when poetry...
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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.
Source: The Name and Nature of Poetry.
-- A E Housman, (Mar 26 1859-1936), English scholar, poet; His lyrics express a Romantic pessimism in a spare, simple style.