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Category Archive: William Ernest Henley

William Ernest Henley Quote: “Essayists, like poets, are born and…”

Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth reading. Your true essayist is, in a literary sense, the friend of everybody.

April 17, 2021 1849, August 23, English, Quotes by Poets, William Ernest Henley

William Ernest Henley Quote: “Shakespeare often writes so ill that…”

Shakespeare often writes so ill that you hesitate to believe he could ever write supremely well; or, if this way of putting it seem indecorous and abominable, he very often writes so well that you are loth to believe he could ever have written thus extremely ill.

March 8, 2021 1849, August 23, English, Quotes by Poets, William Ernest Henley

William Ernest Henley Quote: “Balzac’s ambition was to be omnipotent….”

Balzac’s ambition was to be omnipotent. He would be Michelangelesque, and that by sheer force of minuteness. He exaggerated scientifically, and made things gigantic by a microscopic fulness of detail.

January 6, 2021 1849, August 23, English, Quotes by Poets, William Ernest Henley

William Ernest Henley Quote: “It matters not how strait the…”

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.

September 18, 2020 1849, August 23, English, Quotes by Poets, William Ernest Henley

William Ernest Henley Quote: “Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common…”

Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion.

August 18, 2020 1849, August 23, English, Quotes by Poets, William Ernest Henley

William Ernest Henley Quote: “This is the merit and distinction…”

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

July 7, 2020 1849, August 23, English, Quotes by Poets, William Ernest Henley

William Ernest Henley Quote: “In the fell clutch of circumstance…”

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

June 15, 2020 1849, August 23, English, Quotes by Poets, William Ernest Henley

William Ernest Henley Quote: “It is the artist’s function not…”

It is the artist’s function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.

December 29, 2019 1849, August 23, English, Quotes by Poets, William Ernest Henley

William Ernest Henley Quote: “There are two men in Tolstoy….”

There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism that for all its sincerity is nothing if not vague and sentimental; and he is the most acute and dispassionate of observers, the most profound and earnest student of character and emotion.

December 3, 2019 1849, August 23, English, Quotes by Poets, William Ernest Henley

William Ernest Henley Quote: “To be a good Briton, a…”

To be a good Briton, a man must trade profitably, marry respectably, live cleanly, avoid excess, revere the established order, and wear his heart in his breeches pocket or anywhere but on his sleeve.

August 17, 2019 1849, August 23, English, Quotes by Poets, William Ernest Henley

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