Land Quote by 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…

— A. E. Housman

Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's aware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over then there'll be time enough…

— A. E. Housman

Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on,…

— A. E. Housman

On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes…

— A. E. Housman

To justify God's ways to man.

— A. E. Housman

Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.

— A. E. Housman

A moment's thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.

— A. E. Housman

His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.

— A. E. Housman

On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble;His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;The wind it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the…

— A. E. Housman

Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires,what farms are those? that…

— A. E. Housman

'Tis spring; come out to ramble The hilly brakes around, For under thorn and bramble About the hollow ground The primroses are found. And…

— A. E. Housman

If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe,…

— A. E. Housman