Favourite quotes and poems
Here is a collection of quotations, poems and thoughts that have resonated with me at varying epochs of my life. I save them here mainly to save them for myself, but in sharing them I hope perhaps you’ll discover some writer or philosopher for yourself. Some are well-known, some obscure.
If you discover any errors or misquotes, or inaccuracies in referencing the source, please do tell me.
Invictus
Out of the night that covers me Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
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.