Alfred Edward Housman citáty

Alfred Edward Housman byl anglický básník.

✵ 26. březen 1859 – 30. duben 1936   •   Další jména آلفرد ادوارد هاوسمن, A. E. Housman
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Alfred Edward Housman citáty a výroky

„Poezie je více fyzická než intelektuální.“

Zdroj: [Hamburger, Michael, 1982, The truth of poetry, 19, en, 0-416-34240-X]

Alfred Edward Housman: Citáty anglicky

“Who made the world I cannot tell;
'Tis made, and here am I in hell.
My hand, though now my knuckles bleed,
I never soiled with such a deed.”

No. 19, st. 2.
Zdroj: More Poems http://www.kalliope.org/vaerktoc.pl?vid=housman/1936 (1936)

“The rainy Pleiads wester,
Orion plunges prone,
The stroke of midnight ceases,
And I lie down alone.”

No. 11, st. 1.
More Poems http://www.kalliope.org/vaerktoc.pl?vid=housman/1936 (1936)

“Hope lies to mortals
And most believe her,
But man's deceiver
Was never mine.”

No. 6, st. 1.
More Poems http://www.kalliope.org/vaerktoc.pl?vid=housman/1936 (1936)

“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough.”

A.E. Housman kniha A Shropshire Lad

No. 2, st. 1.
A Shropshire Lad (1896)

“Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.”

Saturae of Juvenal (Cambridge University Press, [1905] 1931) p. xi.

“His folly has not fellow
Beneath the blue of day
That gives to man or woman
His heart and soul away.”

A.E. Housman kniha A Shropshire Lad

No. 14, st. 3.
A Shropshire Lad (1896)

“Nature, not content with denying to Mr — the faculty of thought, has endowed him with the faculty of writing.”

From a list of insults drafted by A E Housman, and posthumously published in Laurence Housman's A. E. H. (1937) pp. 89-90. The name was left blank in the original, but was intended to be filled in and used when a suitable subject should turn up.

“Far in a western brookland
That bred me long ago
The poplars stand and tremble
By pools I used to know.”

A.E. Housman kniha A Shropshire Lad

No. 52, st. 1.
A Shropshire Lad (1896)

“I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.”

A remark made in conversation, according to Grant Richards Housman 1897-1936 (1942) p. 100.
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