I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's … - A. E. Housman

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I set a discipline for myself to return every afternoon and take photographs like Edward Weston: f22, full sun, big set squares, big circles. I would smoke a joint with some hippies on the grass, then go do some more pictures.

A. E. Housman

I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the writer - is the peculiar function of poetry.

Peculiar, Think, Thinking, Transmit, Vibrations

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All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.

Lovers, Lying, Tied, Ties, Untrue

The rainy Pleiads wester Orion plunges prone, And midnight strikes and hastens, And I lie down alone.

Lying, Midnight, Orion, Pleiads, Rainy

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

Come, Content, Happy, Land, Nostalgia, Shining

The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.

Light, Lovers, Lovers Meeting, Luck, Meeting, Thoughts

I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.

Brave, Crossed, Feet, Heart, Sea, Souls