A. E. Housman Quotes

A. E. Housman
A. E. Housman
English Poet
Born: Mar 26, 1859
Died: Apr 30, 1936
Ale Drink Every God Man More
Related authors: Alexander Pope Alfred Lord Tennyson John Keats John Milton Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert Browning William Blake William Wordsworth
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. A. E. Housman
Good Great Perception Mellow Though Must Great Literature Some Sharpen Reader Opinions His Dull Discrimination Personal Blunt Literature Should
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. A. E. Housman
Sometimes Will Understanding Pleasure Draw Out Poetry Perfect Almost May Meaning Even Extinguish
Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale. A. E. Housman
Sky Drink Lad Shoulder Your Ale
If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. A. E. Housman
Memory Skin Poetry Razor Line Ceases Act
The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale. A. E. Housman
Angry Sky Dust Our Must Bear Shall Drink Troubles Fail Proud Lad Them Eternity Shoulder Your Ale
That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again. A. E. Housman
Happy Lost See Highways Come Content Shining Where Cannot Again Plain Land
Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man. A. E. Housman
God Man Ways More Does Than Justify Milton
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. A. E. Housman
Every Innocence Air Seems Conceal Diabolical Cunning American Which Every American Incorrigible
I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word. A. E. Housman
Word Sense Every Asylum Find Cambridge
The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic. A. E. Housman
Man Conservative Criticism Critic He Average Average Man

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