• 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 much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

  A. E. Housman
  British poet 1859-1936
  - +

   0

Check all quotes by A. E. Housman

Subjects in these quotes:

1. because
2. nothing
3. sprung
4. which
5. young
6. think

Similar authors

• A. E. Housman
  British poet 50
• Walter Savage Landor
  British poet 25
• Francis Quarles
  British poet 23
• Edward Young
  British poet 21
• Carol Ann Duffy
  British poet and playwright 20
• Charles Churchill
  British poet 12
• Basil Bunting
  British poet 11
• Christina Rossetti
  British poet 11

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 much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young. by : A. E. Housman

Greatest-Quotations.com

Already since 2003 providing you with the best quotations