Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by William Ernest Henley (English Poet)

William Ernest Henley (1849–1903) was an influential poet, critic and editor of the late-Victorian era in England that is spoken of as having as central a role in his time as Samuel Johnson in the eighteenth century. He is remembered most often for his 1875 poem “Invictus,” a piece which recurs in popular awareness. It is one of his hospital poems from early battles with tuberculosis and is said to have developed the artistic motif of poet as a patient, and to have anticipated modern poetry in form and subject matter.

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Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain.
William Ernest Henley
Topics: Pleasure

In the clutch of circumstance, I have not winced or cried aloud; under the bludgeoning of chance, my head is bloody but unbowed.
William Ernest Henley
Topics: Perseverance, Persistence, Endurance, Resolve

A late lark twitters from the quiet skies:
And from the west,
Where the sun, his day’s work ended,
Lingers as in content,
There falls on the old, gray city
An influence luminous and serene,
A shining peace.
William Ernest Henley
Topics: Birds

Madam, Life’s a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She’s the tenant of the room he’s the ruffian on the stair.
William Ernest Henley
Topics: Dying, Death

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbow’d.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Lies but the horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley
Topics: Fate, Freedom, Self-reliance, Self-Control, Adversity, Soul

Open your heart and take us in,
Love – love and me.
William Ernest Henley
Topics: Love

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