A E Housman – Quotes Lover

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#Law And Lawyers

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

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

#Death

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

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

#Drink

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

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

#Drink

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

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

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

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

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

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

#Poetry

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

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

#Literature

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

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the...

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the...

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways...

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways...

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

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

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

#Delusion

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

The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail....

The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail....