Invictus
so, was watching Invictus the other night. Did you know that the title of the film (and the quote Morgan-Freeman-as-Nelson-Mandela is remembered for) is taken from this magnificent poem?
“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 fears
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.
-William Ernest Henley
