Good religious poetry… is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.
A. E. HOUSMANGreat 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.
More A. E. Housman Quotes
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When the journey’s over, There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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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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Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
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Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.
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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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Strapped, noosed, nighing his hour, He stood and counted them and cursed his luck; And then the clock collected in the tower Its strength, and struck.
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This is for all ill-treated fellows Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they’re in trouble And I am not.
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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.
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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use.
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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They put arsenic in his meat And stared aghast to watch him eat; They poured strychnine in his cup And shook to see him drink it up.
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Tomorrow, more’s the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.
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