Alfred Edward Housman quote: "Ensanguining the skies, How heavily it dies, Into the west away; Past touch and sight and sound, Not further to be found, How hopeless under ground, Falls the remorseful day"

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

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

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

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

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

Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200 More things are wrought by prayer Than this...
ALFRED

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuck...
A. E. HOUSMAN

And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
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 person of wisdom is the person of years.
EDWARD

The thing that impresses me most about Americans is the way parents obey their children.
EDWARD

Some follow ideas. Others think of them.
EDWARD

For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate t...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey pl...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Even at drama school if there was a part of some eastern European thug it would be me.
ALFRED MOLINA

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.
ALFRED EISENSTAEDT

I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
ALFRED NOBEL

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, ...
ALFRED ADLER

Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die
ALFRED TENNYSON

I think it would be a problem if Hollywood was casting British actors only as villains; if that were...
ALFRED MOLINA

My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands ...
ALFRED JODL

Major markets are a key factor in advertise and budgeting decisions.
ALFRED AMOROSO

Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
ALFRED KAZIN

Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.
ALFRED JARRY

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to...
ALFRED POLGAR

It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster...
ALFRED JARRY

It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back...
ALFRED TORRIE

The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling, To thought and impulse whil...
ALFRED BUNN

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a ...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
ALFRED SHEINWOLD

Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
ALFRED TENNYSON

... everything based on arguments involving the ''is'' of identidy and the older el (elementalistic)...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI

Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...
ALFRED TENNYSON

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.
ALFRED TENNYSON

A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
ALFRED TENNYSON

We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
ALFRED JARRY

It is because the public are a mass -- inert, obtuse, and passive -- that they need to be shaken up ...
ALFRED JARRY

Puns are the highest form of literature.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people s...
ALFRED TENNYSON

Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his ...
ALFRED TENNYSON

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

I am a part of all that I have met.
ALFRED TENNYSON

What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
ALFRED MERCIER

It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathe...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carryin...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagon...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

I never said all actors are cattle, what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?
ALFRED JARRY

In the old days villains had moustaches and kicked the dog. Audiences are smarter today. They don't ...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Blind and unwavering undisciplined at all times constitutes the real strength of all free men.
ALFRED JARRY

I try to offset any tendency towards the macabre with humour. As I see it, this is a typically Engli...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
ALFRED NOBEL

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.
ALFRED JARRY

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Drama is life with the dull parts cut out of it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for the...
ALFRED SUTRO

To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be ...
ALFRED JARRY

Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.
ALFRED ADLER

For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is th...
ALFRED NOBEL

Man know much more than he understands.
ALFRED ADLER

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for t...
ALFRED ADLER

The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationshi...
ALFRED ADLER

I'm frightened of eggs, worse than frightened, they revolt me. That white round thing without any ho...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

With so much information now online, it is exceptionally easy to simply dive in and drown.
ALFRED GLOSSBRENNER

Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
ALFRED ADLER

The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incom...
ALFRED ADLER

To be human means to feel inferior.
ALFRED ADLER

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
ALFRED ADLER

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the ...
ALFRED JARRY

Man knows more than he understands.
ALFRED ADLER

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
ALFRED ADLER

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as ...
ALFRED ADLER

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.
ALFRED NOBEL

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.
ALFRED AUSTIN

There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with ...
ALFRED ADLER

Ensanguining the skies, How heavily it dies, Into the west away; Past touch and sight and sound, Not further to be found, How hopeless under ground, Falls the remorseful day

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Ensanguining the skies, How heavily it dies, Into the west away; Past touch and sight and sound, Not further to be found, How hopeless under ground, Falls the remorseful day

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