Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man. A. E. Housman god man justify Change image and share on social
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 eternity shoulder ale Change image and share on social
The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic. A. E. Housman average critic criticism Change image and share on social
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 poetry shave Change image and share on social
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 live shame dead Change image and share on social
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. A. E. Housman innocence diabolical incorrigible Change image and share on social
Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write. A. E. Housman content deny endow Change image and share on social
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 extinguish pleasure Change image and share on social
If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. A. E. Housman act memory cease Change image and share on social
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 law god man Change image and share on social
