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A E Housman Quotes
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
~ A. E. Housman
Ale
Drink
Fellows
Hurts
Man
Stuff
Think
Whom
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And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
~ A. E. Housman
Does
God
Justify
Man
Milton
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Than
Ways
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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
Almost
Draw
Even
Extinguish
May
Meaning
Out
Perfect
Pleasure
Poetry
Sometimes
Understanding
Will
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Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
~ A. E. Housman
Act
Am
Because
Ceases
Experience
I Am
Keep
Line
Me
Memory
Morning
Over
Poetry
Razor
Shaving
Skin
Taught
Thoughts
Watch
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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.
~ A. E. Housman
Blunt
Discrimination
Dull
Good
Great
Great Literature
His
Literature
Mellow
Must
Opinions
Perception
Personal
Reader
Sharpen
Should
Some
Though
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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.
~ A. E. Housman
Because
Choose
Dead
Did
Here
Land
Lie
Life
Live
Lose
Men
Much
Nothing
Shame
Sure
Think
Were
Which
Young
Young Men
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I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
~ A. E. Housman
Asylum
Cambridge
Every
Find
Sense
Word
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If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
~ A. E. Housman
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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
~ A. E. Housman
Air
American
Conceal
Cunning
Every
Every American
Incorrigible
Innocence
Seems
Which
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Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
~ A. E. Housman
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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
~ A. E. Housman
Ability
Content
Denying
Endowed
Him
Nature
Think
Write
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Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
~ A. E. Housman
Ale
Drink
Lad
Shoulder
Sky
Your
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That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
~ A. E. Housman
Again
Cannot
Come
Content
Happy
Highways
I See
Land
Lost
Plain
See
Shining
Where
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
~ A. E. Housman
Average
Average Man
Conservative
Critic
Criticism
He
Man
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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
~ A. E. Housman
Build
Cheap
Delusions
House
Live
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
~ A. E. Housman
God
He
Keep
Laws
Man
May
Me
Themselves
Will
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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.
~ A. E. Housman
Ale
Angry
Bear
Drink
Dust
Eternity
Fail
Lad
Must
Our
Proud
Shall
Shoulder
Sky
Them
Troubles
Your
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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
Am
Bleed
Cannot
Deed
Hand
Hell
Here
Knuckle
Made
Never
Now
Tell
Though
Tis
Who
World
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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
~ A. E. Housman
Could
Define
More
Poetry
Rat
Than
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BirthDate
26 March, 1859
DeathDate
30 April, 1936
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