I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat
Alfred Housman
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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN It's not easy to define poetry.
BOB DYLAN Your goal as a candidate - define others before they can define you.
DANA PERINO I keep trying to define 'poetry,' but it's so difficult.
JACK GLEESON How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely mor...
ROBERT J. SAWYER Love. What is love? No word can define it, it's something so great, only God could design it. Yes, l...
RICHARD BACH Love. What is love? No one can define it, its something so great, only God could design it. Yes, lo...
UNKNOWN I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
EDGAR ALLAN POE I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty
EDGAR ALLAN POE You can no longer define your manhood by whether you're on a nine-to-five job or you're maki...
TEMPESTT BLEDSOE There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
UMBERTO ECO You can always define the life you live but love will always find a way to define itself.
OLASOT A band can define their own success.
ADAM SCHLESINGER Define your life,
Define your world,
Define your passions,
Define your goals.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Humans define perfection, I therefore define myself as perfect.
KAILESH MISTRY I don't think you can define love.
HARRY STYLES Define yourself.
Define your passion.
Define your success.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA A man can define many things beautifully in his life, but his character is one beautiful thing that ...
ANUJ SOMANY An orotundity, which I define as Nobelitis a pomposity in which one is treated as representative of ...
WILLIAM G. GOLDING The Census Bureau was more inclined to define people the way they defined themselves rather than imp...
ERNESTO SAGAS Nobody on the committee could even define what it means. So how can an employer?
MARK WILSON I define God as an energy - a spiritual energy. It has no denomination. It has no judgments.
DEBBIE FORD A single trait can never define a whole diaspora of people.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER You can define a complex thing with a fairly simple model.
GORDON HAMMOND Perfect? How can you define a word without concrete meaning?
ELLEN HOPKINS I think it's been a spectacular hire. I don't know how you could define it any other way.
DAVID SCHMIDLY I would rather feel contrition than know how to define it.
THOMAS à KEMPIS Only you can define you. No one else's opinions should have any impact whatsoever.
ELIZA LEAMY your dressing can define your limits.
JALAL HAIDER In short, you can't let the deadline define the mission. The mission has to define the duration.
RICHARD HOLBROOKE You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshe...
JULIAN BARNES I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.
THOMAS A KEMPIS Let's define it now,
JIM BROWN One of the best lessons we can learn is humility. You should define your material possessions; they ...
CELSO CUKIERKORN What does this beauty or than music mean to you? You cannot see the waves rolling up the beach or he...
HELEN KELLER God gave you life not for how you define him but he wants to see that how you can define yourself.
VIKRANT PARSAI Terms don't define our lives; our lives define our terms.
JOSHUA HARRIS If not as a true human, let me tell you as a Biologist, color of the skin does not define an individ...
ABHIJIT NASKAR We're not words, Henry, we're people.
Words are how others define us, but we can define ourselv...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Lead a life of no definition
and let the world define it for itself.
ROHAN SINGH NEGI You can not define being exactly on time.
W. EDWARDS DEMING Strong people define themselves; weak people allow others to define them.
KEN POIROT I don't think we define our lives by our illness. We define ourselves by how we live.
LARRY GOLDSTEIN Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.
ANNE FRANK If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is the quiet acceptance of what is.
WAYNE DYER If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is "the
quiet acceptance of what is.".
WAYNE DYER If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is ''the quiet acceptance of what is.''
WAYNE DYER A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrate...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
WAYNE DYER When you judge others, you do not define them, you define yourself
EARL NIGHTINGALE When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
WAYNE W. DYER helped define a still nascent medium.
LUCILLE BALL I would not define that then as a clinical trial.
DAVID KROLL Femininity appears to be one of those pivotal qualities that is so important no one can define it.
CAROLINE BIRD As much as I don’t want it to be true, the reasons I don’t do something define me as a person ev...
DAN PEARCE In some cased 5 is better for us as XML (define) and SOAP (define) support in PHP 5 are much better ...
ADAM TRACHTENBERG Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?
GAO XINGJIAN Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely...
GRAYDON CARTER Others do not define you - you define yourself through your words and actions.
KAREN HANDEL Define yourself. Never give anyone any chance to define you by their definitions.
VIKRANT PARSAI Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad ...
ANDY WARHOL Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad ...
EDWARD ALBEE Oh Mr.Webster could never define what's being said between your heart and mine.
ALLISON KRAUSS I should no longer define myself as the son of a father who couldn’t or hasn’t or wouldn’t or ...
CAMERON CONAWAY Contraception doesn't define a woman.
NIKKI HALEY I mean it as a compliment when I say that you could almost define a philosopher as someone who won't...
RICHARD DAWKINS If you define evolution as merely meaning change over time, then I don't see any problem with a ...
LEE STROBEL There are no Hallmark cards that define the next chapter, or the value of a history together.
BRAD PITT Permit no one to define you by your mistakes or your past
BERNARD KELVIN CLIVE How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to d...
ARISTOTLE How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to d...
ARISTOTLE The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It w...
C.S. LEWIS Who are You to label Me or anybody else?! Don't be so quick to judge, take a look at Yourself and th...
PHILIP T.M If you define MVP, he's the guy,
TIM HUDSON I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ...
LIZ PHAIR We don’t have to allow ourselves to be defined by the labels imposed on us. We get to define ourse...
LIZZIE VELáSQUEZ I never wanted to be on any billionaires list. I never define myself by net worth. I always try to d...
HOWARD SCHULTZ I can't re-define music every week!
ARTHUR BAKER I is the hardest word to define.
JOHN GREEN Imperfections define perfection
COLLEEN HOOVER I define my journey, I enjoy it too.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Autism doesn't have to define a person. Artists with autism are like anyone else: They define th...
ADRIENNE BAILON The more science learns what life is, the more reluctant scientists are to define it.
LEILA M. COYNE What I am or am not wearing does not correlate with my competency as a professional, a mother, or a ...
MIYA YAMANOUCHI We have to define and put into practice a better, more coherent and effective policy on income secur...
KIM CAMPBELL Our shared values define us more than our differences. And acknowledging those shared values can see...
JOHN MCCAIN Define your personal dignity today. Make a list of the positive internal qualities
that you value th...
GAIL PURSELL ELLIOTT Memories no matter how small or inconsequential are the pages that define us.
SARAH WINMAN We may define therapy as a search for value.
ABRAHAM MASLOW People define themselves aesthetically at a very young age.
THOM FILICIA Define yourself, even though others call you a freak..
OLASOT To every complex challenge, there exist a define solution.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We can change anything meant to define us-to suit us well.
THEE AMAZING GRACE Only the man who has known freedom
Can define his prison.
CATHERINE FISHER The untented Kosmos my abode,
I pass, a wilful stranger:
My mistress still the open road R.L.S. Your actions define you.
SCOTTIE SOMERS Happier than a terrier in a barrel full of rats
TERRY PRATCHETT There are conversations going on about the Church constantly. Those conversations will continue whet...
M. RUSSELL BALLARD Oh Mr. Webster could never define what's being said between your heart and mine.
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ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN And malt does more than Milton can To justify the ways of God to man.
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough.
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A.E. HOUSMAN Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his ...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sud...
A.E. HOUSMAN To stand up straight and tread the turning mill,
To lie flat and know nothing and be still,
A.E. HOUSMAN Now hollow fires burn out to black,
And lights are fluttering low:
Square your shoulders, ...
A.E. HOUSMAN The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, an...
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A.E. HOUSMAN Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
A.E. HOUSMAN Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
A.E. HOUSMAN The troubles of our proud and angry dust
Are from eternity, and shall not fail.
Bear them we...
A.E. HOUSMAN About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.
A.E. HOUSMAN That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot...
A.E. HOUSMAN We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plan...
A.E. HOUSMAN And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After death has stopped the ears.
A.E. HOUSMAN If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never...
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A.E. HOUSMAN Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by ...
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LAURENCE HOUSMAN Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to...
A.E. HOUSMAN Birds eat (the red berries) and that's how it gets spread around.
HEATHER HOUSMAN I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences w...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN Stone, steel, dominions pass,
Faith too, no wonder;
So leave alone the grass
That I a...
A.E. HOUSMAN How clear, how lovely bright,
How beautiful to sight
Those beams of morning play;
Ho...
A.E. HOUSMAN The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War star...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which mo...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN Who made the world I cannot tell;
'Tis made, and here I am in hell.
A.E. HOUSMAN I see
In many an eye that measures me
The mortal sickness of a mind
Too unhappy to be...
A.E. HOUSMAN The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the...
A.E. HOUSMAN Lie you easy, dream you light,
And sleep you fast for aye;
And luckier may you find the ni...
A.E. HOUSMAN Could man be drunk for ever
With liquor, love, or fights,
Lief should I rouse at ...
A.E. HOUSMAN To-day I shall be strong,
No more shall yield to wrong,
Shall squander life no more;
...
A.E. HOUSMAN Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose,
But young men think it is, and we were young.
A.E. HOUSMAN June suns, you cannot store them
To warm the winter's cold,
The lad that hopes for heaven<...
A.E. HOUSMAN Good creatures, do you love your lives
And have you ears for sense?
Here is a knife like ...
A.E. HOUSMAN All knots that lovers tie
Are tied to sever.
Here shall your sweetheart lie,
Untrue f...
A.E. HOUSMAN The thoughts of others
Were light and fleeting,
Of lovers' meeting
Or luck or fame. A.E. HOUSMAN Oh fair enough are sky and plain,
But I know fairer far:
Those are as beautiful again
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LAURENCE HOUSMAN The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
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A.E. HOUSMAN He would not stay for me, and who can wonder?
He would not stay for me to stand and...
A.E. HOUSMAN Others, I am not the first,
Have willed more mischief than they durst:
If in the breathles...
A.E. HOUSMAN Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered...
A.E. HOUSMAN If you cut it back in the winter, you run the risk of encouraging more growth.
HEATHER HOUSMAN Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200 More things are wrought by prayer Than this...
ALFRED Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuck...
A. E. HOUSMAN And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
A. E. HOUSMAN Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write...
A. E. HOUSMAN Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
A. E. HOUSMAN The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws f...
A. E. HOUSMAN Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to...
A. E. HOUSMAN If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
A. E. HOUSMAN That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot...
A. E. HOUSMAN Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, i...
A. E. HOUSMAN Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect u...
A. E. HOUSMAN The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
A. E. HOUSMAN Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sha...
A. E. HOUSMAN And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.
A. E. HOUSMAN In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cun...
A. E. HOUSMAN The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, an...
A. E. HOUSMAN Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
A. E. HOUSMAN Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
A. E. HOUSMAN I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
A. E. HOUSMAN The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
A. E. HOUSMAN That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and canno...
A. E. HOUSMAN Who made the world I cannot tell;
'Tis made, and here am I in hell.
My hand, though now my k...
A. E. HOUSMAN And then the clock collected in the tower / Its strength and struck.
A. E. HOUSMAN And silence sounds no worse than cheers / After death has stopped the ears.
A. E. HOUSMAN The fairies break their dances / And leave the printed lawn.
A. E. HOUSMAN White in the moon the long road lies.
A. E. HOUSMAN We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plan...
A. E. HOUSMAN Now, of my threescore years and ten, / Twenty will not come again.
A. E. HOUSMAN But men at whiles are sober / And think by fits and starts, / And if they think, they fasten / Their...
A. E. HOUSMAN They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man, / The lads that will die in their glory and...
A. E. HOUSMAN Lovers lying two by two / Ask not whom they sleep beside, / And the bridegroom all night through / N...
A. E. HOUSMAN Made of earth and sea / His overcoat for ever, / And wears the turning globe.
A. E. HOUSMAN Think no more; 'tis only thinking / Lays lads underground.
A. E. HOUSMAN Into my heart an air that kills / From yon far country blows: / What are those blue remembered hills...
A. E. HOUSMAN Oh, when I was in love with you, / Then I was clean and brave.
A. E. HOUSMAN Here of a Sunday morning / My love and I would lie, / And see the coloured counties, / And hear the ...
A. E. HOUSMAN Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / Is hung with bloom along the bough.
A. E. HOUSMAN The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild; / He has devoured the infant child. / The infant child is not awa...
A. E. HOUSMAN The rainy Pleiads wester, / Orion plunges prone, / The stroke of midnight ceases, / And I lie down a...
A. E. HOUSMAN The goal stands up, the keeper / Stands up to keep the goal.
A. E. HOUSMAN Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
A. E. HOUSMAN About the woodlands I will go / To see the cherry hung with snow.
A. E. HOUSMAN Tomorrow, more's the pity, / Away we both must hie, To air the ditty / and to earth I.
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A. E. HOUSMAN No change, though you lie under / The land you used to plough.
A. E. HOUSMAN Mithridates, he died old.
A. E. HOUSMAN Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland...
A. E. HOUSMAN Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; / Breath's a ware that will not keep. / Up, lad; when the jour...
A. E. HOUSMAN For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
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ALFRED HITCHCOCK Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey pl...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Even at drama school if there was a part of some eastern European thug it would be me.
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ALFRED EISENSTAEDT I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
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ALFRED ADLER Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die
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ALFRED JODL Major markets are a key factor in advertise and budgeting decisions.
ALFRED AMOROSO Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
ALFRED KAZIN Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.
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ALFRED POLGAR It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster...
ALFRED JARRY It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back...
ALFRED TORRIE The heart bow'd down by weight of woe,
To weakest hope will cling,
To thought and impulse whil...
ALFRED BUNN The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a ...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
ALFRED SHEINWOLD Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
ALFRED TENNYSON ... everything based on arguments involving the ''is'' of identidy and the older el (elementalistic)...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...
ALFRED TENNYSON If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.
ALFRED TENNYSON A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
ALFRED TENNYSON We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
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ALFRED JARRY Puns are the highest form of literature.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people s...
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ALFRED TENNYSON Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK I am a part of all that I have met.
ALFRED TENNYSON What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
ALFRED MERCIER It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathe...
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ALFRED HITCHCOCK Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagon...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?
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ALFRED HITCHCOCK I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
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ALFRED HITCHCOCK Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
ALFRED NOBEL God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
ALFRED JARRY The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Drama is life with the dull parts cut out of it.
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ALFRED JARRY Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
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ALFRED NOBEL Man know much more than he understands.
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ALFRED HITCHCOCK With so much information now online, it is exceptionally easy to simply dive in and drown.
ALFRED GLOSSBRENNER Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
ALFRED ADLER The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incom...
ALFRED ADLER To be human means to feel inferior.
ALFRED ADLER We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
ALFRED ADLER We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the ...
ALFRED JARRY Man knows more than he understands.
ALFRED ADLER The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
ALFRED ADLER There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as ...
ALFRED ADLER Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
ALFRED NOBEL Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
ALFRED AUSTIN There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with ...
ALFRED ADLER It was the calm and silent night!
Seven hundred years and fifty-three
Had Rome been growing up...
ALFRED DOMETT Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
--ALFRED MARSHALL This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK