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Danh ngôn của A. E. Housman (Sứ mệnh: 7)

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.
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
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.
All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.