• Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... and perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

  Source: The Name and Nature of Poetry

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

1. understanding
2. extinguish
3. pleasure
4. almost

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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... and perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. by : A. E. Housman

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