106 Quotes by A.E. Housman

I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.

The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. “Come all to church, good people”- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.

Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him behold, Child to mother, sheep to fold, Bird to nest from wandering wide: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.

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.

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

Lovers lying two and two Ask not whom they sleep beside, And the bridegroom all night through Never turns him to the bride.

Ten thousand times I’ve done my best and all’s to do again.

If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude...

I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.