The difference between an icicle and a red-hot poker is really much slighter than the difference between truth and falsehood or sense and nonsense; yet it is much more immediately noticeable and much more universally noticed, because the body is more sensitive than the mind.


"The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism", a lecture delivered on August 4, 1921

A. E. Housman Quotes

The difference between an icicle and a red-hot poker is really much slighter than the difference between truth and falsehood or sense and nonsense;...

The difference between an icicle and a red-hot poker is really much slighter than the difference between truth and falsehood or sense and nonsense;...

The difference between an icicle and a red-hot poker is really much slighter than the difference between truth and falsehood or sense and nonsense;...

The difference between an icicle and a red-hot poker is really much slighter than the difference between truth and falsehood or sense and nonsense;...