A. E. Housman

Quotes

• “Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry s...”
• “Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will so...”
• “The loveliest of trees the cherry now is hung with bloom along the bough and stands about the woodland ride wearing wh...”
• “Clay lies still but blood's a rover Breath's a ware that will not keep Up lad when the journey's over There'll be tim...”
• “Clay lies still but blood's a rover Breath's a ware that will not keep. Up lad: when the journey's over There'll be tim...”
• “Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out . but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.”
• “And how am I to face the odds of man's bedevilment and God's? I a stranger and afraid in a world I never made.”
• “Nature not content with denying him the ability to think has endowed him with the ability to write.”
• “Malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.”
• “The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.”
• “I a stranger and afraid in a world I never made.”
• “I a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.”