Ten thousand times I’ve done my best and all’s to do again.
A. E. HOUSMANThe fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
More A. E. Housman Quotes
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To justify God’s ways to man.
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They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man’s.
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Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea And still the sea is salt.
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All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
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The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.
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Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure.
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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
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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 made.
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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
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When the journey’s over, There’ll be time enough to sleep.
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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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