Poetry Quote by William Ernest Henley — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Out of the night that covers me,”

“I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance.”

“To be nobody but”

“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”

“But at my back I always hear”

“I do believe in poetry. I believe that there are creatures endowed with the power to put things together and bring them back to life”

“If you heard your lover scream in the next room”