ᐅ 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 | QuotesTrue.com

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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.

A. E. Housman

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

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