A. E. Housman Quotes, Lonely Quotes, Hero Quotes

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.

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I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.

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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.

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A moment's thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.

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With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.

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All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.

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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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Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

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

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

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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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Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure.

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Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires,what farms are those? that is the land of lost content I can see it shining plain the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.

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Great literature should 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.

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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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Three minutes thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

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Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

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Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.

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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

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