• 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... The seat of this sensation is the pit of the stomach.

  Source: The Name and Nature of Poetry

  A. E. Housman
  British poet 1859-1936
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. experience
2. sensation
3. bristles
4. because
5. stomach
6. strays

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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... The seat of this sensation is the pit of the stomach. by : A. E. Housman

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