Quotes by A E Housman

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

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell....

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

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

#Delusion

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

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

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

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

#Literature

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

#Poetry