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Out of the night that covers me,
— William Ernest Henley
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William Ernest Henley
writer, poet, journalist, editor, literary critic
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1849 – 1903
William Ernest Henley was an English poet, writer, critic and editor. Though he wrote several books of poetry, Henley is remembered most often for his 1875 poem "Invictus". A fixture in London literary circles, the one-legged Henley was an inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's character Long John Silver, while his young daughter Margaret Henley inspired J. M. Barrie's choice of the name Wendy for the heroine of his play Peter Pan (1904).
All Quotes by William Ernest Henley
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In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.
— William Ernest Henley
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O, it's die we must, but it's live we can,
— William Ernest Henley
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Out of the night that covers me,for my unconquerable soul.
— William Ernest Henley
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In the fell clutch of circumstanceMy head is bloody, but unbowed.
— William Ernest Henley
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Beyond this place of wrath and tearsFinds and shall find me unafraid.
— William Ernest Henley
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It matters not how strait the gate,I am the captain of my soul.
— William Ernest Henley
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Who says that we shall pass, or the fame of us fade and die,While the living stars fulfil their round in the living sky?
— William Ernest Henley
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Some starlit garden grey with dew,Are worthy our desire?
— William Ernest Henley
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You played and sang a snatch of song,Whose daily task is to forget?
— William Ernest Henley
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Dear, was it really you and I?Before we can be dead indeed.
— William Ernest Henley
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Life — life — let there be life!And wild waste places of the world!
— William Ernest Henley
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Life — give me life until the end,The immortal, incommunicable dream.
— William Ernest Henley
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What have I done for you,England, my own?
— William Ernest Henley
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Life — life — life! 'Tis the sole great thingHeart on heart in the wonder of Spring!
— William Ernest Henley
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Into a landFalls on the World, and there is no more pain.
— William Ernest Henley
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All over the world, the nation, in a dreamInto a rich deliquium of decay.
— William Ernest Henley