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A E Housman Quotes

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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)
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