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Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

Type: Poet Quotes Category: English Poet Quotes Date of Birth: March 6, 1806 Date of Death: June 29, 1861 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Related Authors: Alexander Pope W. H. Auden John Dryden Samuel Taylor Coleridge Percy Bysshe Shelley Alfred Lord Tennyson Edward Young Herbert Read

A woman is always younger than a man at equal years. Elizabeth Barrett Browning An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 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 At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction. Elizabeth Barrett Browning But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath! Elizabeth Barrett Browning Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 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 For tis not in mere death that men die most. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 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 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's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. Elizabeth Barrett Browning He lives most life whoever breathes most air. Elizabeth Barrett Browning He said true things, but called them by wrong names. Elizabeth Barrett Browning How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Elizabeth Barrett Browning How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital. Elizabeth Barrett Browning If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only. Elizabeth Barrett Browning If you desire faith, then you have faith enough. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Light tomorrow with today! Elizabeth Barrett Browning My sun sets to raise again. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Since when was genius found respectable? Elizabeth Barrett Browning Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. Elizabeth Barrett Browning Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished. Elizabeth Barrett Browning The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 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 What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes. Elizabeth Barrett Browning What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality? Elizabeth Barrett Browning Who so loves believes the impossible. Elizabeth Barrett Browning World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 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

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