Tell him that some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man. (He hated the public spotlight, he said this in denying a journalist’s request to interview him)
Alfred Edward Housman Quotes
Why, if ’tis dancing you would be, There’s brisker pipes than poetry. Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why was Burton built on Trent? Oh many a peer of England brews – Livelier liquor than the Muse, And malt does more than Milton can – To justify God’s ways to man. Ale, man, ale’s […]
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
