Occupation: Poet Birth: March 26, 1859 Death: April 30, 1936
Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but and absol….
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….
Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill.
How clear, how lovely bright, How beautiful to sight Those beams of morning play; How heaven laughs out with glee Where, like a bird set free, Up fro….
I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts ….
I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one..
I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding to what was felt by the wri….
I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made..
They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man's..
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation ….
Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it..
They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,The lads that will die in their glory and never be old..
That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again..
Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires,what farms are those? that is the land ….
Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go..
To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things are supplement….
With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad..
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough..
All knowledge is precious whether or not it serves the slightest human use..
When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep y….
There, by the starlit fences The wanderer halts and hears My soul that lingers sighing About the glimmering weirs..