English - Poet | March 26, 1859 - April 30, 1936
That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
A. E. Housman
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Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
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And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
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I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
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If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
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