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 Read Quote
If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act. A. E. Housman 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. A. E. Housman Read Quote
The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic. A. E. Housman Read Quote
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. A. E. Housman Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. A. E. Housman Read Quote
Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write. A. E. Housman Read Quote
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 Read Quote
