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