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A. E. Housman Quotes

Type: Poet Quotes Category: English Poet Quotes Date of Birth: March 26, 1859 Date of Death: April 30, 1936 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: A. E. Housman Related Authors: Alexander Pope W. H. Auden Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Dryden Edward Young Percy Bysshe Shelley Alfred Lord Tennyson Herbert Read

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think. A. E. Housman And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man. A. E. Housman 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. A. E. Housman 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. A. E. Housman 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. A. E. Housman Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young. A. E. Housman I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word. A. E. Housman If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. A. E. Housman In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. A. E. Housman Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man. A. E. Housman Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write. A. E. Housman Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale. A. E. Housman That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again. A. E. Housman The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic. A. E. Housman The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in. A. E. Housman The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me. A. E. Housman The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale. A. E. Housman Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed. A. E. Housman

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