E. Housman Quotes
21 E. Housman quotes:
"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."
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English Poet Quotes
Discrimination Quotes
"If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act."
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English Poet Quotes
"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."
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English Poet Quotes
Meaning Quotes
"I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word."
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English Poet Quotes
"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."
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Eternity Quotes
Perseverance Quotes
"O Queen of air and darkness,I think 'tis truth you say,And I shall die to-morrow;But you will die to-day."
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Darkness Quotes
Truth Quotes
"In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning."
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America Quotes
Innocence Quotes
"They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man, / The lads that will die in their glory and never be old."
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Glory Quotes
"And then the clock collected in the tower / Its strength and struck."
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Strength Quotes
"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."
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English Poet Quotes
God Quotes
"When I was one-and-twenty / I heard a wise man say, / `Give crowns and pounds and guineas / But not your heart away.'"
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Man Quotes
"Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale."
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English Poet Quotes
"White in the moon the long road lies."
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Lies And Lying Quotes
"Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; / Breath's a ware that will not keep. / Up, lad; when the journey's over / There'll be time enough for sleep."
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Lies And Lying Quotes
"But men at whiles are sober / And think by fits and starts, / And if they think, they fasten / Their hands upon their hearts."
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Men Quotes
"Into my heart an air that kills / From yon far country blows: / What are those blue remembered hills, / What spires, what farms are those?"
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Country Quotes
"With rue my heart is laden / For golden friends I had, / For many a rose-lipt maiden / And many a lightfoot lad."
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Friends Or Friendship Quotes
"Here of a Sunday morning / My love and I would lie, / And see the coloured counties, / And hear the larks so high / About us in the sky."
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Love Quotes
"The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in."
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English Poet Quotes
"A neck God made for other use / Than strangling in a string."
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God Quotes
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