A. E. Housman
British poet
Lived from: 1859 - 1936
Category: Poets (Contemporary) Country: 
United Kingdom
Born: 26 march 1859 Died: 30 april 1936
Quotes 21 till 40 of 50.
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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
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Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.A Shropshire Lad (1896)― A. E. Housman -
Into my heart on air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those?
A Shropshire Lad no. 40, l. 1 (1896)― A. E. Housman -
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough.A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 2, st. 1― A. E. Housman -
Lovers lying two and two
Ask not whom they sleep beside,
And the bridegroom all night through
Never turns him to the bride.A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 12, st. 4― A. E. Housman -
Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
A Shropshire Lad (1896)― A. E. Housman -
Most men are rather stupid, and most of those who are not stupid are, consequently, rather vain.
The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism, a lecture delivered on August 4, 1921― A. E. Housman -
My heart always warms to people who do not come to see me, especially Americans, to whom it seems to be more of an effort.
Letter to Neilson Abeel (October 4, 1935).― A. E. Housman -
Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
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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 Shropshire Lad (1896)― A. E. Housman -
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 Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 2, st. 2-3― A. E. Housman -
Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrists?
And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists?
And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air?
Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.Additional Poems (1937) No. 18, st. 1― A. E. Housman -
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 Shropshire Lad (1896)― A. E. Housman -
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 line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza, accompanied, not preceded by a vague notion of the poem which they were destined to form a part of... I say bubble up because, so far as I could make out, the source of the suggestions thus proffered to the brain was the pit of the stomach.
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Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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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.Last Poems (1922) No. 40, st. 1― A. E. Housman -
That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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The difference between an icicle and a red-hot poker is really much slighter than the difference between truth and falsehood or sense and nonsense; yet it is much more immediately noticeable and much more universally noticed, because the body is more sensitive than the mind.
The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism, a lecture delivered on August 4, 1921― A. E. Housman -
The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
Introductory Lecture, October 3, 1892, London.― A. E. Housman
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