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• With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Women, Struggle, Sound

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.25, Psychology Press

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• Two human loves make one divine.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Anniversary, Wedding, Two

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1850). “Poems: By Elizabeth Barrett Browning. In two volumes”, p.302

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• There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Clouds, Blue, Heaven

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.439

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• God Himself is the best Poet, And the Real is His song.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Faith, Song, Real

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.101

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• What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its own fault. These tears in our eyes, these faintings of the flesh, will not hinder such improvement.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Eye, Soul, Tears

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846”, p.59, The Floating Press

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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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• Whatever's lost, it first was won.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Firsts, Lost

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.518

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• Since when was genius found respectable?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Respect, Genius, Statistics

  'Aurora Leigh' (1857) bk. 6, l. 275

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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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• Much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Cheerful, Possibility, Faculty

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1992). “The Brownings' Correspondence: January 1845-July 1845, letters 1799-1981”

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• The essence of all beauty, I call love.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Essence, Essence Of Beauty

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.179

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• Love me sweet With all thou art Feeling, thinking, seeing; Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Romantic, Sweet

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.110

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• Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Work, Done, Criminal Mind

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1033, Delphi Classics

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• I love thee to the level of everyday's most quiet need, by sun and candle light...I love thee with the breath,smiles,t ears,of all my life.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Light, Everyday, Needs

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1903). “A Selection from Mrs. Browning's Poems”

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• He who breathes deepest lives most.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Life, Health, Inspire

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• If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Past, Feet, History

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.871, Delphi Classics

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

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Faith, Desire, Enough

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• Let us be content to work To do the things we can, and not presume To fret because it's little.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Work, Littles

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.471

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

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Dream, Wine

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• I heard an angel speak last night/And he said, "Write!"

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Angel, Writing, Night

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1870). “Poems of the Intellect and the Affections”, p.112

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• Whoso loves, believes in the impossible

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Believe, Impossible

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.404

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• The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation to the inward sense Of beauty apprehended from without, I still call love.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Beauty, Love Is, Essence

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.308, Delphi Classics

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• I love thee with the passion put to use
  In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
  I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
  With my lost saints,-I love thee with the breath,
  Smiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose,
  I shall but love thee better after death.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Famous Love, Grief, Passion

  Sonnets from the Portuguese no. 43 (1850)

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• And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Desire Love, Headstone, Gravestone

  Sonnets from the Portuguese no. 43 (1850)

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

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Sake, Wedding Poetry

  1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 14.

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