Have just discovered that one of my favourite lines from Years of Refusal is lifted from a war poem by A E Housman. The line, from Mama Lay Softly on the Riverbed, is "Life is nothing much to lose", and appears in Housman's First World War work Here Dead We Lie:
Here dead we lie
Because we...
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