Quotes by : A. E. Housman

Clay lies still but blood's a rover Breath's a ware that will not keep. Up lad: when the journey's over....

I a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

And how am I to face the odds of man's bedevilment and God's? I a stranger and afraid in a world I never....

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if....

The loveliest of trees the cherry now is hung with bloom along the bough and stands about the woodland....

Malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.

Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out . but thought is irksome and three minutes is....

The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding....

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