A. E. Housman Short Quotes

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Oh they're taking him to prison for the color of his hair.

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Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.

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But since the man that runs away
Lives to die another day.

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Oh, 'tis jesting, dancing, drinking
Spins the heavy world around.

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And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After earth has stopped the ears.

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Shot? so quick, so clean an ending?
Oh that was right, lad, that was brave.

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You shot dead the household traitor,
The soul that should not have been born.

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Indeed – very good. I shall – have to repeat – that – on the Golden Floor.

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Hope lies to mortals
And most believe her,
But man's deceiver
Was never mine.

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Clunton and Clunbury,
Clungunford and Clun,
Are the quietest places
Under the sun.

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The European view of a poet is not of much importance unless the poet writes in Esperanto.

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I still go up my 44 stairs two at a time, but that is in hopes of dropping dead at the top.

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Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.

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Stone, steel, dominions pass, Faith too, no wonder; So leave alone the grass That I am under.

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All knots that lovers tie Are tied to sever. Here shall your sweetheart lie, Untrue for ever.

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Most men are rather stupid, and most of those who are not stupid are, consequently, rather vain.

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The house of delusions is cheap to build, but draughty to live in, and ready at any instant to fall.

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The rainy Pleiads wester,
Orion plunges prone,
And midnight strikes and hastens,
And I lie down alone.

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In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

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The rainy Pleiads wester,
Orion plunges prone,
The stroke of midnight ceases,
And I lie down alone.

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His folly has not fellow
Beneath the blue of day
That gives to man or woman
His heart and soul away.

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Far in a western brookland
That bred me long ago
The poplars stand and tremble
By pools I used to know.

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The most important truth which has ever been uttered, and the greatest discovery ever made in the moral world.

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Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.

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Nature, not content with denying to Mr — the faculty of thought, has endowed him with the faculty of writing.

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They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,
The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.

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From far, from eve and morning
And yon twelve-winded sky,
The stuff of life to knit me
Blew hither; here am I.

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And how am I to face the odds
Of man's bedevilment and God's?
I, a stranger and afraid
In a world I never made.

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Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle,
Earth and high heaven are fixt of old and founded strong.

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We now to peace and darkness
And earth and thee restore
Thy creature that thou madest
And wilt cast forth no more.

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