#Drinking Quotes #Men Quotes #Way Quotes
“On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza, accompanied, not preceded by a vague notion of the poem which they were destined to form a part of.... I say bubble up because, so far as I could make out, the source of the suggestions thus proffered to the brain was the pit of the stomach.” A. E. Housman
“Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure.” A. E. Housman
“To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things are supplements and cannot be substitutes. Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders and brains, not pudding, in your head.” A. E. Housman
Source : "The Application of Thought to Textual Criticism". Lecture, August 04, 1921.
“Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.” A. E. Housman
“Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair.” A. E. Housman
Alfred Lord Tennyson Poet
Gerard Manley Hopkins Poet
Hayden Carruth Poet
Ivor Gurney Composer
Laurence Housman Playwright
Ralph Vaughan Williams Composer
Thomas Hardy Novelist
W. H. Auden Poet
William Wordsworth Poet
