A. E. Housman 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. - 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 / There'll be time enough for sleep. - A. E. Housman

Cambridge has seen many strange sights. It has seen Wordsworth drunk, it has seen Porson sober. I am a greater scholar than Wordsworth and I am a greater poet than Porson. So I fall betwixt and between. - A. E. Housman

But men at whiles are sober / And think by fits and starts, / And if they think, they fasten / Their hands upon their hearts. - A. E. Housman

And then the clock collected in the tower / Its strength and struck. - A. E. Housman

And the feather pate of folly / Bears the falling of the sky. - A. E. Housman

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man. - A. E. Housman

Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think. - A. E. Housman

About the woodlands I will go / To see the cherry hung with snow. - A. E. Housman

A neck God made for other use / Than strangling in a string. - A. E. Housman

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