A. E. Housman

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write. ↗

— A. E. Housman

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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. ↗

— A. E. Housman

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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. ↗

— A. E. Housman

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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think. ↗

— A. E. Housman

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I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word. ↗

— A. E. Housman

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Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man. ↗

— A. E. Housman

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Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#drink #lad #shoulder #sky #your

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again. ↗

— A. E. Housman

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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#cheap #delusions #house #live

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man. ↗

— A. E. Housman

#god #justify #malt #man #milton