A. E. Housman Quotes - Page 2

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

  A. E. Housman

  Excellence, Done, Thousand

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.109, Delphi Classics

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• And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

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  Drinking, Food, Book

  A Shropshire Lad no. 62, l. 21 (1896)

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• But if you ever come to a road where danger; Or guilt or anguish or shame's to share. Be good to the lad who loves you true, And the soul that was born to die for you; And whistle and I'll be there.

  A. E. Housman

  Love, Soul, Guilt

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• Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.

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  Heart, Giving, Rubies

  Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 13

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• I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.

  A. E. Housman

  Asylums, Cambridge

  "Housman 1897-1936". Book by Grant Richards, p. 100, 1942.

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• Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.

  A. E. Housman

  Book, Men, Interesting

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• Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.

  A. E. Housman

  Religious, Appreciated, Poetry Is

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• I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.

  A. E. Housman

  Poetry, Rats, Terriers

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.153, Delphi Classics

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• They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man's.

  A. E. Housman

  Men, Sorrow, Tears

  A. E. Housman (2006). “50 Poemas”, p.106, Editorial Renacimiento

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• Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.

  A. E. Housman

  Grief, Land, Giving

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.8, Delphi Classics

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• Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most readers, when they think they are admiring poetry, are deceived by inability to analyse their sensations, and that they are really admiring, not the poetry of the passage before them, but something else in it, which they like better than poetry.

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  Art, Thinking, Poetry

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.169, Delphi Classics

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• Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

  A. E. Housman

  Hurt, Beer, Men

  Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 62

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• 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.

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  Humorous, Hands, World

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics

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• 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 absolutely marvellous minor poet, I think, and a great scholar.

  A. E. Housman

  Lonely, Hero, Men

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• White in the moon the long road lies.

  A. E. Housman

  Lying, Moon, White

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.59, Delphi Classics

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• Tell me not here, it needs not saying, What tune the enchantress plays In aftermaths of soft September Or under blanching mays, For she and I were long acquainted And I knew all her ways.

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  Play, Long, Tunes

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics

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• Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.

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  Strong, Heaven, Earth

  A. E. Housman, “Be Still, My Soul, Be Still; The Arms You Bear Are Brittle”

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• To justify God's ways to man.

  A. E. Housman

  Drinking, Men, Way

  A Shropshire Lad no. 62, l. 21 (1896)

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• Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea And still the sea is salt.

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  Stars, Rain, Fall

  Alfred Edward Housman, “Stars”

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• The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.

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  Light, Luck, Lovers Meeting

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.6, Delphi Classics

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• All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.

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  Lying, Ties, Lovers

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.24, Delphi Classics

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• White in the moon the long road lies, The moon stands blank above; White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love. Still hangs the hedge without a gust, Still, still the shadows stay: My feet upon the moonlit dust Pursue the ceaseless way. The world is round, so travellers tell, And straight through reach the track, Trudge on, trudge on, 'twill all be well, The way will guide one back. But ere the circle homeward hies Far, far must it remove: White in the moon the long road lies That leads me from my love.

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  Lying, Moon, Feet

  A. E. Housman (2017). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.36, Pan Macmillan

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• And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

  A. E. Housman

  Men, Odds, World

  'Last Poems' (1922) no. 12

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• 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? Oh many a peer of England brews Livelier liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man. Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink For fellows whom it hurts to think: Look into the pewter pot To see the world as the world's not.

  A. E. Housman

  Hurt, Drinking, Men

  Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 62

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• The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

  A. E. Housman

  Men, Average, Criticism

  Marcus Manilius, A. E. Housman (2011). “Astronomicon”, p.43, Cambridge University Press

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