Morgan Freeman recites 'Invictus' from memory on Charlie Rose 

Helps when the material is this good.

Ain't that God-damned right?

As Zefrank says, Morgan Freeman could narrate you having explosive diarrhea and make it sound like a beautiful thing.

I wish He could have helped recite my report card when I was a child

Side of cereal box

I got that tattooed on my leg last month. The greatest poem ever

No, Richard Burton had that.

You, sir, must be fun at parties.

Roland Hawken I'm pretty sure they were joking...........

Just good old levity. I doubt he truly meant to comment on WEH's talent.

This thread has done wonders for Autism Awareness.

Roland Hawken cut some slack here, the kid was just joking of course!

he got it slightly wrong but it was still beautiful

Awesome

He did take some poetic license, but I believe it is intentional as nd he has preferred saying that way to himself for years. He says it the same way in a music/ nature video on RU-vid. Plus, Morgan Freeman does not stumble over a script he has memorized. Of that I am quite sure.

This poem sums me up

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Yeah, right up there with Mr. J.E. Jones

peterkray lol

Wow

?.... Why you call yourself the Crimson Fucker?

@@barrettgrissett2740 Because I fucked the fear turkey.

Most of us can only imagine how one's life can be forever changed in the blink of an eye. All the best to you, Jonathan.

rixmix76 Indeed, we are mortal! How it made me a better man! Thanks for the positive vibes Rixmix76.

Eve3n as my life may be torn asunder, I will always see the best in a person out in rough seas. We are all on the same boat, even though we are on different levels.

@@jonnightrain Hail. Invictus

Amen brother, that is what i feel as well. if you are going through hell keep going!!

Well said my friend. Well said. One of the adopted principles of my life. Isaiah 43:2. God's Blessings.

He's amazing

Here here.

If you can dream-and not make dreams your master;

Brilliant - thank you for the lead: "In a letter to Henley after the publication of Treasure Island, Stevenson wrote: "I will now make a confession. It was the sight of your maimed strength and masterfulness that begot Long John Silver...the idea of the maimed man, ruling and dreaded by the sound, was entirely taken from you".

Thank you for this input!

Grateful for your input

Imagine going through that without the pain control we have today, the physical therapy, the prosthetics, the decent wheelchairs, the laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act. And thinking you will lose the other leg too. He wrote that poem as an act of defiance against fate, which left his head bloody but unbowed.

Thank you for such a fantastic backstory. I find things like this all the time such as the most fascinating to me - the relationship between Carl Jung with relation to his coined term ‘synchronicity’ with Einstein - his fascination with how the Theory of Relativity possibly could explain his ideas on seeming purposeful chance. Also Jung’s favorite writing (& author Lewis Caroll who wrote Jabberwocky) was Through the Looking Glass - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland when the White Queen says: The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday--but never jam to-day.'
 'It MUST come sometimes to "jam to-day,"' Alice objected.
 'No, it can't,' said the Queen. ' It's jam every OTHER day: to-day isn't any OTHER day, you know.'
 'I don't understand you,' said Alice. 'It's dreadfully confusing!'
 'That's the effect of living backwards,' the Queen said kindly: 'it always makes one a little giddy at first--'
 'Living backwards!' Alice repeated in great astonishment. 'I never heard of such a thing!'
 '--but there's one great advantage in it, that one's memory works both ways.'
 ‘I'm sure MINE only works one way,' Alice remarked. 'I can't remember things before they happen.'
 'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' the Queen remarked.

This post got me to research William Ernest Henley, and I thank you for it.

That didn't age well.

Chris Welburn - true...!

@@chris230230 No.

Well.....🤣

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I love Morgan Freeman and I love the poem Invictus, but he got a few things wrong! He still made it sound very sexy.

I agree. The Gods bit had me skeptical otherwise a very motivating poem

you exactly right...Henley is cited as atheist. also Morgan says "faith" as opposed to"chance". as that a mistake or intentional? :)

+rixmix76 It is absolutely clear that WEH was an atheist/or agnostic. The entire poem is exactly about that, how if there is a god, it gave him the capacity to captain his own souls fate-and he practically says in the poem that beyond all this lies simply the "horror of the shade" meaning no light, meaning no heaven.

+ZombieKilla Agreed. I suggested that Henley was an atheist. My comment was to how Freeman altered it.

+rixmix76 It is an accurate and cogent thought. Luckily, we know that Freeman is an agnostic and adamant rejecter of religion. I don't think the alteration was intentional.