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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough (A E Housman Quotes)
Most men are rather stupid, and most of those who are not stupid are, consequently, rather vain (A E Housman Quotes)
I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat (A E Housman Quotes)
Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale (A E Housman Quotes)
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think (A E Housman Quotes)
I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made (A E Housman Quotes)
The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic (A E Housman Quotes)
Malt does more than Milton can to justify God`s ways to man (A E Housman Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away. Give pearls away and rubies, but keep your fancy free (A E Housman Quotes)
Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time (A E Housman Quotes)
Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write (A E Housman Quotes)
His folly has not fellow, beneath the blue of day, that gives to man or woman, his heart and soul away (A E Housman Quotes)
Oh, when I was in love with you Then I was clean and brave, and miles around the wonder grew How well did I behave. And now the fancy passes by And nothing will remain, and miles around they'll say that I am quite myself again (A E Housman Quotes)
Ten thousand times I’ve done my best and all’s to do again (A E Housman Quotes)
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning (A E Housman Quotes)
They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man, The lads that will die in their glory and never be old (A E Housman Quotes)
Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle, Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and founded strong (A E Housman Quotes)
We now to peace and darkness and Earth and thee restore thy creature that thou madest and wilt cast forth no more (A E Housman Quotes)
Goodnight; ensured release, imperishable peace, have these for yours, while sea abides, and land, And Earth's foundations stand, and heaven endures (A E Housman Quotes)
They say my verse is sad: no wonder. Its narrow measure spans rue for eternity, and sorrow not mine, but man's. This is for all ill-treated fellows unborn and unbegot, for them to read when they're in trouble and I am not (A E Housman Quotes)
Good literature continually read for pleasure must, let us hope, 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 Quotes)
Look not in my eyes, for fear they mirror true the sight I see, and there you find your face too clear and love it and be lost like me (A E Housman Quotes)
Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack, And leave your friends and go. Oh never fear, man, nought's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread there's nothing but the night (A E Housman Quotes)
Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout (A E Housman Quotes)
Far in a western brookland that bred me long ago the poplars stand and tremble by pools I used to know (A E Housman Quotes)
All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use (A E Housman Quotes)
Now, of my threescore years and ten, twenty will not come again, and take from seventy springs a score, it only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom fifty springs are little room, about the woodlands I will go to see the cherry hung with snow (A E Housman Quotes)