The house of delusions is cheap to build but draughty to live in. A E Housman
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
I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat. A E Housman
Up, lad: when the journey’s over
There’ll be time enough to sleep.
A E Housman
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. A E Housman
Cambridge has seen many strange sights. It has seen Wordsworth drunk, it has seen Porson sober. I am a greater scholar than Wordsworth and I am a greater poet than Porson. So I fall betwixt and between. A E Housman
I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word. A E Housman
There can’t be much amiss, ’tis clear,
To see the rate you drink your beer.
A E Housman