Top 25 Quotes by Laurence Housman

It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.

If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy.

I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters has become too wordy to write economically for the stage.

I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.

On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together.

I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.

It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment.

It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony.