Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

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• You're something between a dream and a miracle.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Life, Dream, Miracle

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• Silence is the best response to a fool.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Silence, Fool, Cool Status

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

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Faith, Autumn, Shoes

  'Aurora Leigh' (1857) bk. 7, l. 821

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

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Valentines Day, Cute Boyfriend

  1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 43.

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• I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Wedding, Soulmate

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• Light tomorrow with today!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.494, Delphi Classics

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• Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Breathe, Drink, Feels

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.223, Everyman's Library

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

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Marriage, Sweet Love, Educational

  Sonnets from the Portuguese no. 43 (1850)

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• 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

  Love, Anniversary, Romantic

  Dormer Creston, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1943). “Andromeda in Wimpole Street: the love story of Robert and Elizabeth Browning told in their letters”

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• True knowledge comes only through suffering.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Adversity, Suffering, True Knowledge

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• The little cares that fretted me, I lost them yesterday Among the fields above the sea, Among the winds at play.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Wind, Sea, Play

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• Gaze up at the stars knowing that I see the same sky and wish the same sweet dreams.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Inspirational, Goodbye, Dream

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• truth outlives pain, as the soul does life.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Truth, Pain, Soul

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.451

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• Art is much, but love is more.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Art, Love Is, Art Is

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.490

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• How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Boyfriend, Valentine

  1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 43.

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• It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  People, Too Much, Hospitality

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846”, p.9, The Floating Press

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

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Creativity, Power, Ideas

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1954). “Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford: the unpublished letters of Elizabeth Barrett Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford”

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• It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Garden, Eden, Apples

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• A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Greatness, Men, Clean

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.405

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• The devil's most devilish when respectable.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Respect, Witty, Devil

  'Aurora Leigh' (1857) bk. 7, l. 105

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• No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Best Friend, Funny Friendship, Reading

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• Whoever lives true life, will love true love.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Life, Love Life

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh”, p.36

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• I f thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile ... her look ... her way Of speaking gently ... for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day- For these things in themselves, Beloved, may Be changed, or change for thee-and love so wrought, May be unwrought so.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Fall, Looks

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Theodore Tilton (1862). “Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning: From the Last London Edition”, p.292

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• Who so loves believes the impossible.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Faith, Believe

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh. Author's ed”, p.195

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• What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Life, Men

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