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William Ernest Henley
William Ernest Henley
English Poet
Born: Aug 23, 1849
Died: Jul 11, 1903
Essayist Good Made Men Soul World
Related authors: Alexander Pope Alfred Lord Tennyson John Keats John Milton Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert Browning William Blake William Wordsworth
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
Soul Fate Master Matters Punishments Charged My Soul How Am Scroll Strait Captain Gate
Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the minds of men to combat and discussion. William Ernest Henley
Men Minds Shakespeare Rembrandt Faculty Combat Quickening Discussion Common Compelling Speculation
Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It is a pity that things should be thus with us, for a good essayist is the pleasantest companion imaginable. William Ernest Henley
Good Men Earned Our Immortality Had Part Thus Well Make Shelves Doing Been Essayist Done Pity Them Poor Us Should Figure Who Companion Many Things Imaginable
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. William Ernest Henley
World Worth Made Reading Sense Everybody Hundred Worth Reading Born Poets Remembering True Like Friend Essayist Literary Confronted Your
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 Nature Reality Distinction More Merit Real Than Essence
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. William Ernest Henley
Confusion Whatever Appropriate Immortal Only Select Raw Raw Material Idle Material Accidental His Perpetuation Artist Irrelevant Which Gross Function Actuality Eliminate Copy
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. William Ernest Henley
Made Ambition Omnipotent Gigantic Detail Would Would-Be Exaggerated He Force Sheer Scientifically Microscopic Things

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