Alfred Edward Housmanfue a poet and classical scholar English. Also he signed his works as A. E. Housman.
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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.
That is the land of lost content I see it shining plain the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life to be sure is nothing much to lose but young men think it is and we were young.
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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
And malt does more than Milton can to justify Gods ways to man.
Ale man ales the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
The average man if he meddles with criticism at all is a conservative critic.
I find Cambridge an asylum in every sense of the word.
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.
Experience has taught me when I am shaving of a morning to keep watch over my thoughts because if a line of poetry strays into my memory my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
If a line of poetry strays into my memory my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
Nature not content with denying him the ability to think has endowed him with the ability to write.
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.
The laws of God the laws of man he may keep that will and can not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
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.
Malt does more than Milton can to justify Gods ways to man.
Shoulder the sky my lad and drink your ale.
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.