A. E. Housman Quotes

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• I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not…
• Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.
• To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things are supplements and…
• Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure.
• 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…
• To justify God's ways to man.
• 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 leaves.
• Ten thousand times I've done my best and all's to do again.
• Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see the rate you drink your…
• This is for all ill-treated fellows Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they're in trouble And I am not.
• 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…
• Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but…
• And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
• I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
• Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
• 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…
• The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
• Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
• 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 is…
• How clear, how lovely bright, How beautiful to sight Those beams of morning play; How heaven laughs out with glee Where, like a bird set…

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