William Ernest Henley Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• 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

  Life, Fate, Punishment

  "Invictus" l. 13 (1888)

• Love, which is lust, is the Lamp in the Tomb.
  Love, which is lust, is the Call from the Gloom.
  Love, which is lust, is the Main of Desire.
  Love, which is lust, is the Centric Fire.
  So man and woman will keep their trust,
  Till the very Springs of the Sea run dust.
  Yea, each with the other will lose and win,
  Till the very Sides of the Grave fall in.
  For the strife of Love's the abysmal strife,
  And the word of Love is the Word of Life.
  And they that go with the Word unsaid,
  Though they seem of the living, are damned and dead.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Running, Spring

  William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1970). “The Works of W. E. Henley: Poems”

• Life is worth Living
  Through every grain of it,
  From the foundations
  To the last edge
  Of the cornerstone, death.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Lasts, Foundation

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “Poems”

• Who but knows
  How it goes!
  Life's a last year's Nightingale,
  Love's a last year's rose.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Years, Rose

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “Poems”

• Life is a smoke that curls-
  Curls in a flickering skein,
  That winds and whisks and whirls,
  A figment thin and vain,
  Into the vast inane.
  One end for hut and hall.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Wind, Curls

  William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1908). “The Works of W. E. Henley: Poems”

• Life - life - let there be life!

  William Ernest Henley

  Life

  William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1908). “The Works of W. E. Henley: Poems”

• Life - life - let there be life!
  Better a thousand times the roaring hours
  When wave and wind,
  Like the Arch-Murderer in flight
  From the Avenger at his heel,
  Storm through the desolate fastnesses
  And wild waste places of the world!

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Wind, Storm

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “Poems”

• Life - give me life until the end,
  That at the very top of being,
  The battle-spirit shouting in my blood,
  Out of the reddest hell of the fight
  I may be snatched and flung
  Into the everlasting lull,
  The immortal, incommunicable dream.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Dream, Fighting

  William Ernest Henley (1893). “London Voluntaries ; The Song of the Sword, and Other Verses”, London : D. Nutt

• Life - life - life! 'Tis the sole great thing
  This side of death,
  Heart on heart in the wonder of Spring!

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Spring, Heart

  William Ernest Henley (1901). “Hawthorn and Lavender with Other Verses”

• Open your heart and take us in, Love-love and me.

  William Ernest Henley

  Love, Life, Heart

  William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1908). “The Works of W. E. Henley: Poems”

• Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul. The mind is the standard of the man.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Ocean, Men

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