Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes - Page 4

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• The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Courage, Knights, Bravery

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1099, Delphi Classics

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• The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Gratitude

  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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• Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Music, Hands, Musician

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.81

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• God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Lilies, Rich, Poor

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.146

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• I should not dare to call my soul my own.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Freedom, Soul, Should

  Aurora Leigh bk. 2, l. 786 (1857)

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• The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Larks, Littles, Soar

  1856 Aurora Leigh, bk.3.

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• And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Grace, Vain, Still In Love

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.143

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• If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Thee, Ifs

  Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, Rainer Maria Rilke (2017). “Sonnets from the Portuguese / Sonette aus dem Portugiesischen: Englisch und Deutsch”, p.72, BoD – Books on Demand

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• I would not be a rose upon the wall
  A queen might stop at, near the palace-door,
  To say to a courtier, "Pluck that rose for me,
  It's prettier than the rest." O Romney Leigh!
  I'd rather far be trodden by his foot,
  Than lie in a great queen's bosom.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Life, Queens, Wall

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh”, p.129

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• 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

  Love, Pain, Use

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1866). “Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poetical works”, p.222

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• O rose, who dares to name thee?
  No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet,
  But pale, and hard, and dry, as stubblewheat,
  Kept seven years in a drawer, thy titles shame thee.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Sweet, Flower, Years

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “The Poetical Works of”, p.409

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• O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Song, Brave, Soul

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning (1872). “A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning”, p.206

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• When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Death, Horse, Men

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.867, Delphi Classics

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• Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Children, Brain, Age

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.276

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• Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Brother, Children, Childhood

  'The Cry of the Children' (1844) st. 1

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• The man, most man,
  Works best for men, and, if most men indeed,
  He gets his manhood plainest from his soul:
  While, obviously, this stringent soul itself
  Obeys our old rules of development;
  The Spirit ever witnessing in ours,
  And Love, the soul of soul, within the soul,
  Evolving it sublimely.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Men, Soul, And Love

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1859). “Poems: From the last London ed., corrected by the author”, p.348

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• Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Morning, Night, Light

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Sonnets from the Portuguese”, p.74, Doubleday

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• Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Heart, May, Loathe

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• What is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Art, Lines, Ascending

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1029, Delphi Classics

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• My love for him was so exquisitely pure that if we all were capable of giving and receiving such a beautiful gift the world would be a far more brilliant place; I think we'd all be poets.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Beautiful, Dream

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• Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Wall, Ivy, Weather

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.470

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• Where Christ brings His cross He brings His presence; and where He is none are desolate, and there is no room for despair.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Despair, Rooms, Christ

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Theodore Tilton (1862). “Last Poems”, p.68

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• Thank God for grace, Ye who weep only! If, as some have done, Ye grope tear-blinded in a desert place And touch but tombs,--look up! Those tears will run Soon in long rivers down the lifted face, And leave the vision clear for stars and sun.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Running, Stars, Rivers

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.80

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• Knowledge by suffering entereth,
  And life is perfected by death.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Life, Death, Knowledge

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.231

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• Will that light come again, As now these tears come...falling hot and real!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Real, Fall, Light

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.191, Everyman's Library

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