The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
A. E. HOUSMANThat is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
A. E. HOUSMANHis folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.
A. E. HOUSMANEarth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
A. E. HOUSMANEarth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
A. E. HOUSMANPoetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it.
A. E. HOUSMANGive crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
A. E. HOUSMANJune suns, you cannot store them To warm the winter’s cold, The lad that hopes for heaven Shall fill his mouth with mould.
A. E. HOUSMANAnd how am I to face the odds Of man’s bedevilment and God’s? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
A. E. HOUSMANBut if you ever come to a road where danger; Or guilt or anguish or shame’s to share. Be good to the lad who loves you true, And the soul that was born to die for you; And whistle and I’ll be there.
A. E. HOUSMANI do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
A. E. HOUSMANTen thousand times I’ve done my best and all’s to do again.
A. E. HOUSMANShoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
A. E. HOUSMANWhite in the moon the long road lies.
A. E. HOUSMANI, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.
A. E. HOUSMANHousman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but and absolutely marvellous minor poet, I think, and a great scholar.
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