{"author":"A. E. Housman","author_id":"A.+E.+Housman","total_quotes":12,"quotes":[{"text":"I  a stranger and afraid  in a world I never made.","author":"A. E. Housman","tags":["ways","overcome","fear"],"id":7245,"author_id":"A.+E.+Housman"},{"text":"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.","author":"A. E. Housman","tags":["life"],"id":25477,"author_id":"A.+E.+Housman"},{"text":"Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.","author":"A. E. Housman","tags":["experience","i am","poetry "],"id":44531,"author_id":"A.+E.+Housman"},{"text":"Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out  . But thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time.","author":"A. E. Housman","tags":["thinking","thought"],"id":75716,"author_id":"A.+E.+Housman"},{"text":"I  a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.","author":"A. E. Housman","tags":["fear"],"id":106378,"author_id":"A.+E.+Housman"},{"text":"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.","author":"A. E. Housman","tags":["mornings"],"id":154738,"author_id":"A.+E.+Housman"},{"text":"Malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man.","author":"A. E. Housman","tags":["drink","drinking","drinkers"],"id":235600,"author_id":"A.+E.+Housman"},{"text":"Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.","author":"A. E. Housman","tags":["understanding","meaning "],"id":321929,"author_id":"A.+E.+Housman"},{"text":"The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.","author":"A. E. Housman","tags":["helping","people"],"id":416628,"author_id":"A.+E.+Housman"},{"text":"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.","author":"A. E. Housman","tags":["life"],"id":435688,"author_id":"A.+E.+Housman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}