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William Ernest Henley has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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,…
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Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.
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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.
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So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark…
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Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.
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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…
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Night with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep.
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A late lark twitters from the quiet skies.
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Into the winter's gray delight, Into the summer's golden dream, Holy and high and impartial, Death, the mother of Life, Mingles all…
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And lo, the Hospital, gray, quiet, old, Where life and death like friendly chafferers meet.
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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…
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[T]hey stretch you on a table. Then they bid you close your eyelids, And they mask you with a napkin, And the…
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No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population,…
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Quotations are powerful tools. Michel de Montaigne, the father of all essayists, observed, 'I quote others only to better express myself.' Intrepid…
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Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth…
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Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.
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There is more to be pondered in the grain and texture of life than traditional fiction allows. The work of essayists is…
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I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists.
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Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists,…
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Novelists go about the strenuous business of marrying and burying their people, or else they send them to sea, or to Africa,…
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