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A. E. Housman [1859-1936] English

Rank: 102
Poet

Alfred Edward Housman, usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.

Poetry, Experience, Morning

Quote	Tags	Rank
I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.		101
And malt does more than Milton can To justify the ways of God to man.		101
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.	Poetry	102
I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.		102
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.		103
Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.		103
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.		104
Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.		105
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.		106
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.		107
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.		108
Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.		109
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.		110
The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.		111
That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.		112
Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.		113
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.		114
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.	Experience, Morning, Poetry	115
And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.		116
The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.		117
If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.	Poetry	118

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