A. E. Housman
Poet
1859-03-26 – 1936-04-30
A. E. Housman was an English poet and classical scholar. He is best known for the poetry collection A Shropshire Lad and for influential editions of Latin texts. He served as a professor of Latin at University College London and later at the University of Cambridge.
Quotes by A. E. Housman
-
I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
Read quote -
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.
Read 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.
Read 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.
Read quote -
Malt does more than Milton can, To justify God's ways to man.
Read quote -
I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
Read quote -
Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure.
Read quote -
Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
Read quote