Quotes by A E Housman

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

#Drink

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

#Drink

And silence sounds no worse than cheers / After death has stopped the ears.

#Death

The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can;...

#Law And Lawyers

Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a...

If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the...

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

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land...

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull,...

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over...

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to...