Quote: That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again. [Alfred Edward Housman]
Quote: We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world. [Alfred Edward Housman]
Quote: The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale. [Alfred Edward Housman]
Quote: In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. [Alfred Edward Housman]
Quote: Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young. [Alfred Edward Housman]
Quote: ?The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.? [Alfred Edward Housman]
Quote: ?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.? [Alfred Edward Housman]
Quote: ?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.? [Alfred Edward Housman]
Quote: ?White in the moon the long road lies.? [Alfred Edward Housman]
Quote: ?Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.? [Alfred Edward Housman]
Quote: ?About the woodlands I will go / To see the cherry hung with snow.? [Alfred Edward Housman]
Quote: ?The fairies break their dances / And leave the printed lawn.? [Alfred Edward Housman]
Quote: ?Great 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.? [Alfred Edward Housman]
Quote: ?And silence sounds no worse than cheers / After death has stopped the ears.? [Alfred Edward Housman]
Quote: ?Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / Is hung with bloom along the bough.? [Alfred Edward Housman]
Quote: ?O Queen of air and darkness,
I think 'tis truth you say,
And I shall die to-morrow;
But you will die to-day.? [Alfred Edward Housman]
Quote: ?Into my heart an air that kills / From yon far country blows: / What are those blue remembered hills, / What spires, what farms are those?? [Alfred Edward Housman]
Quote: ?The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild; / He has devoured the infant child. / The infant child is not aware / He has been eaten by the bear.? [Alfred Edward Housman]
Quote: ?The rainy Pleiads wester, / Orion plunges prone, / The stroke of midnight ceases, / And I lie down alone.? [Alfred Edward Housman]
Quote: ?Oh, when I was in love with you, / Then I was clean and brave.? [Alfred Edward Housman]
Quote: ?When I was one-and-twenty / I heard a wise man say, / `Give crowns and pounds and guineas / But not your heart away.'? [Alfred Edward Housman]
Quote: ?Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.? [Alfred Edward Housman]
Quote: ?Here of a Sunday morning / My love and I would lie, / And see the coloured counties, / And hear the larks so high / About us in the sky.? [Alfred Edward Housman]
Quote: ?With rue my heart is laden / For golden friends I had, / For many a rose-lipt maiden / And many a lightfoot lad.? [Alfred Edward Housman]
Quote: ?They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man, / The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.? [Alfred Edward Housman]