106 Quotes by A.E. Housman

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

Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet, it will come to you naturally and you will pick up all you need from reading poetry.

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

Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs.

To justify God’s ways to man.

The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.