A. E. Housman Quotes About Beer

Quotes about: Beer

• Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

  A. E. Housman

  Hurt, Beer, Men

  Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 62

• 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.

  A. E. Housman

  Beer, Dust, Sky

  Last Poems (1922) no. 9

• Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.

  A. E. Housman

  Home, Beer, Way

  Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 62

• Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

  A. E. Housman

  Beer, Sky, Ale

  Last Poems (1922) no. 9

• Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see the rate you drink your beer. But oh, good Lord, the verse you make, It gives a chap the belly-ache. The cow, the old cow, she is dead; It sleeps well the horned head: We poor lads, 'tis our turn now To hear such tunes as killed the cow. Pretty friendship 'tis to rhyme Your friends to death before their time. Moping, melancholy mad: Come, pipe a tune to dance to, lad.

  A. E. Housman

  Stupid, Humorous, Sleep

  A Shropshire Lad no. 62, l. 1 (1896)

• And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.

  A. E. Housman

  Drinking, Food, Book

  A Shropshire Lad no. 62, l. 21 (1896)

• On occasions, after drinking a pint of beer at luncheon, there would be a flow into my mind with sudden and unaccountable emotion, sometimes a line or two of verse, sometimes a whole stanza, accompanied, not preceded by a vague notion of the poem which they were destined to form a part of.... I say bubble up because, so far as I could make out, the source of the suggestions thus proffered to the brain was the pit of the stomach.

  A. E. Housman

  Drinking, Beer, Two

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