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

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….

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young..

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 ….

They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man's..

The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn..

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

Poetry is not the thing said, but the way of saying it..

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 ….

They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,The lads that will die in their glory and never be old..

Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go..

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

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

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning..

You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to sm….

To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things are supplement….

I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat..

Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most readers….

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

Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his b….