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A.E. Housman cytaty

„Dwudziestojednoletni,
Słyszałem rady mędrca:
„Trwoń funty i gwinee,
Lecz nie kapitał serca,
Nie trać dla kogoś głowy –
Najgorsza to ze strat”.
Dwudziestojednoletni
Nie słucha takich rad.
Dwudziestojednoletni,
Słyszałem, co rzekł dalej:
„Kto odda komuś serce,
Sam płaci – łzą i żalem;
A nic nie zyska – poza
Nie wiedzieć jakim złem”.
Dwadzieścia dwa mam lata
I, ech, już wiem, już wiem.”

A.E. Housman

When I was one-and-twenty
I heard him say again,
„The heart out of the bosom
Was never given in vain;
'Tis paid with sighs a plenty
And sold for endless rue.”
And I am two-and-twenty
And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true. (ang.)
Źródło: Dwudziestojednoletni, „Dekada Literacka” nr 7, 1992, tłum. Stanisław Barańczak

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A.E. Housman: Cytaty po angielsku

“When I was one-and-twenty
I heard him say again,
"The heart out of the bosom
Was never given in vain;
'Tis paid with sighs a plenty
And sold for endless rue."
And I am two-and-twenty
And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.”

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A.E. Housman książka A Shropshire Lad

No. 13, st. 2.
A Shropshire Lad (1896)

“Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out … and perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.”

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The Name and Nature of Poetry

“Stars, I have seen them fall,
But when they drop and die
No star is lost at all
From all the star-sown sky.
The toil of all that be
Helps not the primal fault;
It rains into the sea
And still the sea is salt.”

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Źródło: A Shropshire Lad

“Give me a land of boughs in leaf
A land of trees that stand;
Where trees are fallen there is grief;
I love no leafless land.”

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A.E. Housman

“The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book."

(, 3 October 1892)”

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Źródło: Selected Prose

“The thoughts of others
Were light and fleeting,
Of lovers' meeting
Or luck or fame.
Mine were of trouble,
And mine were steady;
So I was ready
When trouble came.”

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Źródło: More Poems

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

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A.E. Housman Last Poems

Źródło: Last Poems

“All knots that lovers tie
Are tied to sever.
Here shall your sweetheart lie,
Untrue for ever.”

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Źródło: More 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.”

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

“Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?

That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.”

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No. 40.
Źródło: 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.”

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

“They carry back bright to the coiner the mintage of man,
The lads that will die in their glory and never be old.”

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No. 23, st. 4.
A Shropshire Lad (1896)

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

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

“Could man be drunk for ever
With liquor, love, or fights,
Lief should I rouse at mornings
And lief lie down of nights.
But men at whiles are sober
And think by fits and starts,
And if they think, they fasten
Their hands upon their hearts.”

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No. 10, st. 2.
Last Poems http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8lspm10.txt (1922)

“Oh, when I was in love with you
Then I was clean and brave,
And miles around the wonder grew
How well did I behave.

And now the fancy passes by
And nothing will remain,
And miles around they'll say that I
Am quite myself again.”

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No. 18.
A Shropshire Lad (1896)

“The chestnut casts his flambeaux, and the flowers
Stream from the hawthorn on the wind away,
The doors clap to, the pane is blind with showers.
Pass me the can, lad; there’s an end of May.”

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No. 9, st. 1.
Last Poems http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8lspm10.txt (1922)

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

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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.”

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

“I rather doubt if man really has much to gain by substituting peace for strife, as you and Jesus Christ recommend. Sic notus Ulixes? do you think you can outwit the resourceful malevolence of Nature? God is not mocked, as St. Paul long ago warned the Galatians. When man gets rid of a great trouble he is easier for a while, but not for long: Nature instantly sets to work to weaken his power of sustaining trouble, and very soon seven pounds is as heavy as fourteen pounds used to be. Last Easter Monday a young woman threw herself in the Lea because her dress looked so shabby amongst the holiday crowd: in other times and countries women have been ravished by half-a-dozen dragoons and taken it less to heart. It looks to me as if the state of mankind always had been and always would be a state of just tolerable discomfort.”

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"Letter to Gilbert Murray" (April 23, 1900).

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

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

“Clay lies still, but blood's a rover;
Breath's a ware that will not keep.
Up, lad: when the journey's over
There'll be time enough to sleep.”

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No. 4 ("Reveille"), st. 6.
A Shropshire Lad (1896)

“The troubles of our proud and angry dust
Are from eternity, and shall not fail.
Bear them we can, and if we can we must.
Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.”

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No. 9, st. 7.
Last Poems http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8lspm10.txt (1922)

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

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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.”

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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.