William Ernest Henley Quotes

• De la noche que me cubre
  negra es la fosa de polo a polo,
  Agradezco a los dioses que sean
  Por mi alma inconquistable.
  En la caída de las circunstancias
  No me he estremecido ni he gritado.
  Bajo los golpes del azar
  Mi cabeza está ensangrentada, pero intacta.
  Más allá de este lugar de ira y lágrimas
  sólo se vislumbra el horror de la sombra,
  Y sin embargo la amenaza de los años
  Me encuentra y me encontrará sin miedo.
  No importa cuán estrecha sea la puerta,
  lo cargado de castigos que esté el pergamino,
  Soy el amo de mi destino:
  Soy el capitán de mi alma.

  William Ernest Henley

  Strength, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

  "Invictus" l. 13 (1888)

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• Merece la pena vivir
  A través de cada grano de ella
  Desde los cimientos
  Hasta el último borde
  De la piedra angular, la muerte.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Lasts, Foundation

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “Poems”

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• No importa cuán estrecha sea la puerta, Cuán cargado de castigos el pergamino; Yo soy el dueño de mi destino: Soy el capitán de mi alma.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Fate, Punishment

  "Invictus" l. 13 (1888)

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• más allá de este lugar de ira y lágrimas no se vislumbra sino el horror de la sombra

  William Ernest Henley

  Wrath, Tears, Unconquerable Will

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

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• Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.

  William Ernest Henley

  Pain, Men, May

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

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• So many are the deaths we die
  Before we can be dead indeed.

  William Ernest Henley

  Muerte, Muere

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “Poems”

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• 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”

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• A late lark twitters from the quiet skies.

  William Ernest Henley

  Sky, Larks, Quiet

  William Ernest Henley (1921). “Poems”

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• Vida - dame vida hasta el final,
  Que en la cima del ser,
  El espíritu de batalla gritando en mi sangre,
  Fuera del infierno más rojo de la lucha
  pueda ser arrebatado y arrojado
  En la calma eterna,
  El sueño inmortal e incomunicable.

  William Ernest Henley

  Life, Dream, Fighting

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

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• Bajo los golpes del azar Mi cabeza está ensangrentada, pero intacta.

  William Ernest Henley

  Unconquerable Will, Statistics, Chance

  "Invictus" l. 5 (1888)

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• Life is, I think, a blunder and a shame.

  William Ernest Henley

  Thinking, Life Is, Shame

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

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• Abre tu corazón y acógenos, Amor-amor y yo.

  William Ernest Henley

  Amor, Vida, Corazón

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

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• 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

  Vida, Océano, Hombres

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• This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.

  William Ernest Henley

  Art, Real, Essence

  William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1908). “Views and reviews; essays in appreciation: I. Literature. II. Art”

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• Night with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep.

  William Ernest Henley

  Estrellas, Sueño, Noche

  Robert Louis Stevenson, Lloyd Osbourne, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, William Ernest Henley, Sir Graham Balfour (1903). “The amateur emigrant. Across the plains. The silverado squatters”

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• 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”

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• Here is the ghost
  Of a summer that lived for us,
  Ere is a promise
  Of summer to be.

  William Ernest Henley

  Summer, July, Promise

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• Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief. The criticism that damages is that which disparages, dismisses, ridicules, or condemns.

  William Ernest Henley

  Artist, Giving, Criticism

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• Doy gracias a los dioses que sean Por mi alma inconquistable.

  William Ernest Henley

  Fear, Soul, Atheism

  'Invictus. In Memoriam R.T.H.B.' (1888)

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• 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”

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• 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”

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• Life - life - let there be life!

  William Ernest Henley

  Life (Vida)

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

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• O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy of woman and man And the longing that makes them one." (Between the Dusk of a Summer Night, 13-16)

  William Ernest Henley

  Summer, Night, Men

  William Ernest Henley, “Between The Dusk Of A Summer Night”

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• Behold me waiting—waiting for the knife.... The thick, sweet mystery of chloroform, The drunken dark, the little death-in-life.... [F]ace to face with chance, I shrink a little: My hopes are strong, my will is something weak. ...I am ready But, gentlemen my porters, life is brittle: You carry Cæsar and his fortunes—steady!

  William Ernest Henley

  Sweet, Strong, Dark

  William Ernest Henley, “Before”

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• For it's home, dearie, home--it's home I want to be.
  Our topsails are hoisted, and we'll away to sea.
  O, the oak and the ash and the bonnie birken tree
  They're all growing green in the old countrie.

  William Ernest Henley

  Home, Sea, Tree

  William Ernest Henley (2015). “A Selection of Poems”, p.141, Read Books Ltd

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