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Quotation from Invictus by William Ernest Henley
“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”
Invictus, Stanza 4, lines 13-16 (A Book of Verses, 2nd ed., 1889)
The famous close, which borrows biblical images of the narrow gate and the record of judgment in order to defy them.
Citation: "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, Invictus, Stanza 4, lines 13-16 (A Book of Verses, 2nd ed., 1889). (id invictus-q4)
