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William Ernest Henley Quotes about Life

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

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”

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 - 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

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

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”

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”

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 - life - let there be life!

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

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