A. E. Housman Quotes

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• And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
• 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.
• In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
• The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
• If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he…
• I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
• Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength, and…
• Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
• Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him…
• Why, if 'tis dancing you would be, There's brisker pipes than poetry. Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why was Burton built on Trent?…
• They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man's.
• The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you,…
• With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.
• His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.
• I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded…
• 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…
• When the journey's over/There'll be time enough to sleep.
• The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
• All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.

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