Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

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

By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Since when was genius found respectable?.. view

By: 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... view

By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane.. view

By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Who so loves believes the impossible... view

By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?.. view

By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death.. view

By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

For tis not in mere death that men die most... view

By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach... view

By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness... view

By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways... view

By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Light tomorrow with today!.. view

By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

He lives most life whoever breathes most air... view

By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame... view

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If you desire faith, then you have faith enough... view

By: 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.. view

By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write.. view

By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

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But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!.. view

By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

By: 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... view

By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

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A woman is always younger than a man at equal years... view

By: 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... view

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My sun sets to raise again... view

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Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished... view

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

By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

He said true things, but called them by wrong names... view

By: Elizabeth Barrett Browning