Quotes About A.E. Housman

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

First don: O cuckoo, shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice? Second don: State the alternative preferred, With reasons for your choice.

Here are the skies, the planets seven, And all the starry train: Content you with the mimic heaven, And on the earth remain. (Additional Poems, V)

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.