A.E. Housman: Quotes about the world

A.E. Housman was English classical scholar and poet. Explore interesting quotes on world.

A.E. Housman: 138 quotes2 likes

“I, a stranger and afraid
In a world I never made.”

A.E. Housman Last Poems

Source: Last Poems

“Therefore, since the world has still
Much good, but much less good than ill,
And while the sun and moon endure
Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure
I’d face it as a wise man would,
And train for ill and not for good.”

A.E. Housman book A Shropshire Lad

No. 62, st. 3.
Source: A Shropshire Lad (1896)

“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. <br class="br">Source: More Poems http://www.kalliope.org/vaerktoc.pl?vid=housman/1936 (1936)

“The most important truth which has ever been uttered, and the greatest discovery ever made in the moral world.”

Referring to Luke 17:33, 'Whosoever will save his life shall lose it, and whosoever will lose his life shall find it' (the wording used by Housman).

“We for a certainty are not the first
Have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled
Their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed
Whatever brute and blackguard made the world.”

No. 9, st. 3. <br class="br"> Last Poems http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8lspm10.txt (1922)

“And how am I to face the odds
Of man’s bedevilment and God’s?
I, a stranger and afraid
In a world I never made.”

No. 12, l. 15-18. <br class="br"> Last Poems http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8lspm10.txt (1922)