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A. E. Housman is a great English Poet. These quotes can inspire your soul. Whether you're looking for a quote for your loved one's important day, cards, scrapbooks, letters or messages, these quotes can help you.
A. E. Housman was born on Mar 26, 1859. Died on Apr 30, 1936.

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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  • Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
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  • If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
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  • The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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  • Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
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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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  • That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
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  • The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
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  • Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.
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  • Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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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.
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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.
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