Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

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If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love, Except, Thou

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

God, Off, Earth

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Life, Girl, Sorry

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Dreams, God, Best

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Life, Long, Made

Who so loves believes the impossible.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love, Impossible, Loves

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Enough, Impossible, Times

Light tomorrow with today!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Today, Tomorrow, Light

Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Life, Love, God

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love, Ways, Count

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love, Soul, Reach

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Great, Ignorance, May

And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Hero, Light, Face

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Power, Genius, Expressing

For tis not in mere death that men die most.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Men, Death, Die

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

God, Face, Gift

How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Simple, Social, Earth

My sun sets to raise again.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sun, Again, Raise

Since when was genius found respectable?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Genius, Since, Found

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Death, Happy, Said

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Strong, Silence, Child

What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Wine, Dream, Taste

First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Time, Write, Since

He lives most life whoever breathes most air.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Life, Lives, Air

He said true things, but called them by wrong names.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

True, Said, Wrong

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: March 6, 1806

Died: June 29, 1861

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