A. E. Housman Quotes

Full Name:Alfred Edward Housman

Walk of life:English poet

Born:March 26, 1859, Bromsgrove, U.K

Died:Died: April 30, 1936, Cambridge, U.K

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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

Draw Meaning
And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Ears
Who made the world I cannot tell; ‘Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
A. E. HOUSMAN
And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Doubt Ear
The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.
A. E. HOUSMAN
His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Day
Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Leave Stone
But 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. HOUSMAN

Dangerous
I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
A. E. HOUSMAN

Definition
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.
A. E. HOUSMAN

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