Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuck...
A. E. HOUSMAN Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write...
A. E. HOUSMAN Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
A. E. HOUSMAN The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws f...
A. E. HOUSMAN Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to...
A. E. HOUSMAN If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
A. E. HOUSMAN That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot...
A. E. HOUSMAN Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, i...
A. E. HOUSMAN Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect u...
A. E. HOUSMAN The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
A. E. HOUSMAN Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sha...
A. E. HOUSMAN And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.
A. E. HOUSMAN In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cun...
A. E. HOUSMAN The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, an...
A. E. HOUSMAN Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
A. E. HOUSMAN Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
A. E. HOUSMAN I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
A. E. HOUSMAN The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
A. E. HOUSMAN That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and canno...
A. E. HOUSMAN Who made the world I cannot tell;
'Tis made, and here am I in hell.
My hand, though now my k...
A. E. HOUSMAN And then the clock collected in the tower / Its strength and struck.
A. E. HOUSMAN And silence sounds no worse than cheers / After death has stopped the ears.
A. E. HOUSMAN The fairies break their dances / And leave the printed lawn.
A. E. HOUSMAN White in the moon the long road lies.
A. E. HOUSMAN We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plan...
A. E. HOUSMAN Now, of my threescore years and ten, / Twenty will not come again.
A. E. HOUSMAN But men at whiles are sober / And think by fits and starts, / And if they think, they fasten / Their...
A. E. HOUSMAN They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man, / The lads that will die in their glory and...
A. E. HOUSMAN Lovers lying two by two / Ask not whom they sleep beside, / And the bridegroom all night through / N...
A. E. HOUSMAN Made of earth and sea / His overcoat for ever, / And wears the turning globe.
A. E. HOUSMAN Think no more; 'tis only thinking / Lays lads underground.
A. E. HOUSMAN Into my heart an air that kills / From yon far country blows: / What are those blue remembered hills...
A. E. HOUSMAN Oh, when I was in love with you, / Then I was clean and brave.
A. E. HOUSMAN Here of a Sunday morning / My love and I would lie, / And see the coloured counties, / And hear the ...
A. E. HOUSMAN Loveliest of trees, the cherry now / Is hung with bloom along the bough.
A. E. HOUSMAN The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild; / He has devoured the infant child. / The infant child is not awa...
A. E. HOUSMAN The rainy Pleiads wester, / Orion plunges prone, / The stroke of midnight ceases, / And I lie down a...
A. E. HOUSMAN The goal stands up, the keeper / Stands up to keep the goal.
A. E. HOUSMAN Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
A. E. HOUSMAN About the woodlands I will go / To see the cherry hung with snow.
A. E. HOUSMAN Tomorrow, more's the pity, / Away we both must hie, To air the ditty / and to earth I.
A. E. HOUSMAN Cambridge has seen many strange sights. It has seen Wordsworth drunk, it has seen Porson sober. I am...
A. E. HOUSMAN No change, though you lie under / The land you used to plough.
A. E. HOUSMAN Mithridates, he died old.
A. E. HOUSMAN Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland...
A. E. HOUSMAN Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; / Breath's a ware that will not keep. / Up, lad; when the jour...
A. E. HOUSMAN The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
A. E. WAITE If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divinat...
A. E. WAITE Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business ...
A. E. WAITE It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at ...
A. E. WAITE The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with act...
A. E. WAITE We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards.
A. E. WAITE We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of '...
A. E. HOTCHNER When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers...
A. E. HOTCHNER Inward rest... gives an air of leisure to [Christ's] crowded life: above all, there is in this Man a...
A. E. WHITHAM Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and...
A. E. WAITE Mass production is for the masses.
E. A. FILENE Good literature continually read for pleasure must, let us hope, do some good to the reader: must qu...
A.E. HOUSMAN Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his ...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sud...
A.E. HOUSMAN To stand up straight and tread the turning mill,
To lie flat and know nothing and be still,
A.E. HOUSMAN Now hollow fires burn out to black,
And lights are fluttering low:
Square your shoulders, ...
A.E. HOUSMAN The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, an...
A.E. HOUSMAN In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cun...
A.E. HOUSMAN Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
A.E. HOUSMAN Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
A.E. HOUSMAN The troubles of our proud and angry dust
Are from eternity, and shall not fail.
Bear them we...
A.E. HOUSMAN About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.
A.E. HOUSMAN That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot...
A.E. HOUSMAN We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plan...
A.E. HOUSMAN And silence sounds no worse than cheers
After death has stopped the ears.
A.E. HOUSMAN If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I ...
A.E. HOUSMAN Clay lies still but blood's a rover; Breath's a ware that will not keep. Up, lad; when the journey's...
A.E. HOUSMAN Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by ...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN This is for all ill-treated fellows - Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they're in trouble ...
ALFRED HOUSMAN And malt does more than Milton can To justify the ways of God to man
ALFRED HOUSMAN Little is the luck I've had, And oh, 'tis comfort small - To think that many another lad - Has had n...
ALFRED HOUSMAN Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write
ALFRED HOUSMAN That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot...
ALFRED HOUSMAN Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or ne...
ALFRED HOUSMAN Ensanguining the skies, How heavily it dies, Into the west away; Past touch and sight and sound, Not...
ALFRED HOUSMAN I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat
ALFRED HOUSMAN I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made
ALFRED HOUSMAN And how am I to face the odds, Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid, In a world...
ALFRED HOUSMAN I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought ca...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to...
A.E. HOUSMAN Birds eat (the red berries) and that's how it gets spread around.
HEATHER HOUSMAN I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences w...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN Stone, steel, dominions pass,
Faith too, no wonder;
So leave alone the grass
That I a...
A.E. HOUSMAN How clear, how lovely bright,
How beautiful to sight
Those beams of morning play;
Ho...
A.E. HOUSMAN The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War star...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which mo...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN Who made the world I cannot tell;
'Tis made, and here I am in hell.
A.E. HOUSMAN I see
In many an eye that measures me
The mortal sickness of a mind
Too unhappy to be...
A.E. HOUSMAN The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the...
A.E. HOUSMAN Lie you easy, dream you light,
And sleep you fast for aye;
And luckier may you find the ni...
A.E. HOUSMAN Could man be drunk for ever
      With liquor, love, or fights,
Lief should I rouse at ...
A.E. HOUSMAN To-day I shall be strong,
No more shall yield to wrong,
Shall squander life no more;
...
A.E. HOUSMAN Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose,
But young men think it is, and we were young.
A.E. HOUSMAN June suns, you cannot store them
To warm the winter's cold,
The lad that hopes for heaven<...
A.E. HOUSMAN Good creatures, do you love your lives
And have you ears for sense?
Here is a knife like ...
A.E. HOUSMAN All knots that lovers tie
Are tied to sever.
Here shall your sweetheart lie,
Untrue f...
A.E. HOUSMAN The thoughts of others
Were light and fleeting,
Of lovers' meeting
Or luck or fame. A.E. HOUSMAN Oh fair enough are sky and plain,
But I know fairer far:
Those are as beautiful again
A.E. HOUSMAN It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary t...
LAURENCE HOUSMAN The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
A.E. HOUSMAN When I examine my mind and try to discern clearly in the matter, I cannot satisfy myself that there ...
A.E. HOUSMAN He would not stay for me, and who can wonder?
    He would not stay for me to stand and...
A.E. HOUSMAN Others, I am not the first,
Have willed more mischief than they durst:
If in the breathles...
A.E. HOUSMAN Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered...
A.E. HOUSMAN If you cut it back in the winter, you run the risk of encouraging more growth.
HEATHER HOUSMAN I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way...
A. E. VAN VOGT You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met anot...
A. E. VAN VOGT The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launch...
A. E. VAN VOGT I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
A. E. VAN VOGT It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of...
A. E. VAN VOGT But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what...
A. E. VAN VOGT I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I...
A. E. VAN VOGT Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.
A. E. VAN VOGT In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
A. E. VAN VOGT Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights...
A. E. VAN VOGT In those days I was new to covers; merely felt pleased that a story of mine had been honored. I late...
A. E. VAN VOGT Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book;...
A. E. VAN VOGT My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
A. E. VAN VOGT I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.
A. E. VAN VOGT How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial r...
E. T. A. HOFFMANN In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
A. E. VAN VOGT I wrote what interested me; and my method of working out my story through the dream process probably...
A. E. VAN VOGT I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I...
A. E. VAN VOGT I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.
A. E. VAN VOGT I did not go along with the new theories that Hubbard was offering. They had a religious aspect and ...
A. E. VAN VOGT Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and...
A. E. VAN VOGT As a craftsman, I made my living at writing from the moment I crossed the line at age 20, and sold m...
A. E. VAN VOGT It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be intere...
A. E. VAN VOGT Because the issues debated at the convention were very contentious and very divisive, it's easy to i...
A. E. DICK HOWARD In many ways, the U.S. Supreme Court remains the paradigm.
A. E. DICK HOWARD We're talking about a constitution that is in its third century. That's really quite remarkable amon...
A. E. DICK HOWARD Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.
E. T. A. HOFFMANN Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tr...
E. T. A. HOFFMANN Then the world seemed none so bad, and I myself a sterling lad. And down in lovely muck I've lain, h...
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or ne...
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN And malt does more than Milton can To justify the ways of God to man.
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN This is for all ill-treated fellows - Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they're in trouble ...
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or ne...
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN And how am I to face the odds, Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid, In a world...
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN And how am I to face the odds, Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid, In a world ...
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN This is for all ill-treated fellows - Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they're in trouble A...
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN From far, from eve and morning And yon twelve-winded sky, The stuff of life to knit me Blew hither: ...
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Ensanguining the skies, How heavily it dies, Into the west away; Past touch and sight and sound, Not...
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot...
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Little is the luck I've had, And oh, 'tis comfort small - To think that many another lad - Has had n...
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN And malt does more than Milton can To justify the ways of God to man
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN You are not meant to serve time. Time is meant to serve you. Become the master of your now
E'YEN A. GARDNER To express yourself in a creative way you don't need structure you need an empty mind.
E'YEN A. GARDNER The life that I have lived was no more than a mask covering the real me. What has happened was not t...
E'YEN A. GARDNER Oneness with God is not a dream, it is the only reality. Everything else is an illusion.
E'YEN A. GARDNER Life is simple, just be yourself.
E'YEN A. GARDNER Come out of hiding, don't be afraid to be yourself.
E'YEN A. GARDNER When we know Love, fear has no value in our presence. There is no pressure to perform and mask our h...
E'YEN A. GARDNER However, if we don’t confront the seed of lies, it gives place for them to take root in us and we ...
E'YEN A. GARDNER If there is no door to your dream, create one.
E'YEN A. GARDNER Patience is learned through waiting
E'YEN A. GARDNER I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CUMMINGS Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more...
E. E. CUMMINGS Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CUMMINGS I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGS At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CUMMINGS I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CUMMINGS Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. CUMMINGS Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
E E CUMMINGS Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E E CUMMINGS Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
E. E. CUMMINGS