Robert Browning Quotes - Page 10

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• What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

  Robert Browning

  Work, Ambition, Comfort

  'Rabbi Ben Ezra' (1864) st. 7

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• Talent should minister to genius.

  Robert Browning

  Genius, Talent, Ministers

  Robert Browning (2008). “The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.”, p.97, Wildside Press LLC

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• You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.

  Robert Browning

  Girl, Kissing, Romantic Love

  Robert Browning (2014). “A Selection of Poems”, p.121, Cambridge University Press

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• Sing, riding 's a joy! For me I ride.

  Robert Browning

  Joy, Riding

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.90, Wildside Press LLC

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• God is seen God In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod.

  Robert Browning

  God, Stars, Soul

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.168, Wildside Press LLC

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• Truth never hurt the teller.

  Robert Browning

  Hurt, Truth

  'Fifine at the Fair' (1872) st. 32

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• If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

  Robert Browning

  Beauty, Attitude, Simple

  'Fra Lippo Lippi' (1855) l. 217

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• Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!

  Robert Browning

  Strong, Incense, Catholicism

  'The Bishop Orders his Tomb' (1845) l. 80

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• Since there my past life lies, why alter it?

  Robert Browning

  Lying, Past, Deceit

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.435, Wordsworth Editions

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• Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.

  Robert Browning

  Rome, Late, Rounds

  Robert Browning, Stefan Hawlin (2001). “The Poetical Works of Robert Browning: Volume VIII. The Ring and the Book”, p.21, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The past is gained, secure, and on record.

  Robert Browning

  Past, Records, Secure

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846”, p.56, The Floating Press

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• Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

  Robert Browning

  Men, Feet, Temptation

  'The Ring and the Book' (1868-9) bk. 10, l. 1184

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• Death: the grand perhaps.

  Robert Browning

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• Silence 'tis awe decrees.

  Robert Browning

  Silence, Decree, Awe

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.666, Wordsworth Editions

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• Who knows but the world may end tonight

  Robert Browning

  Time, Tonight, World

  "The Last Ride Together" l. 22 (1855)

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• 'Tis an awkward thing to play with souls.

  Robert Browning

  Play, Soul, Awkward

  'A Light Woman' (1855) st. 12

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• Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!

  Robert Browning

  Pain, Learning, Joy

  Robert Browning (2007). “Poems by Robert Browning (Student Edition)”, p.122, Wildside Press LLC

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• In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity

  Robert Browning

  Vanity, Heaven, Earth

  Robert Browning, David Ewbank (2007). “The Complete Works of Robert Browning: Volume XV, with Variant Readings and Annotations”, p.82, Ohio University Press

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• That moment she was mine, mine, fair, Perfectly pure and good: I found A thing to do, and all her hair In one long yellow string I wound Three times her little throat around, And strangled her. No pain felt she; I am quite sure she felt no pain. As a shut bud that holds a bee, I warily oped her lids: again Laughed the blue eyes without a stain. And I untightened the next tress About her neck; her cheek once more Blushed bright beneath my burning kiss . . .

  Robert Browning

  Pain, Eye, Kissing

  'Porphyria's Lover' (1842) l. 38

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• How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark Autumn evenings come, And where, my soul, is thy pleasant hue? With the music of all thy voices, dumb In life’s November too! I shall be found by the fire, suppose, O’er a great wise book as beseemeth age, While the shutters flap as the cross-wind blows, And I turn the page, and I turn the page, Not verse now, only prose!

  Robert Browning

  Wise, Book, Mean

  'By the Fireside' (1855) st. 2

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• Over my head his arm he flung, Against the world.

  Robert Browning

  Friendship, World, Arms

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.25, Wildside Press LLC

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• O never star Was lost; here We all aspire to heaven and there is heaven Above us. If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud, It is but for a time; I press God's lamp Close to my breast; its splendor soon or late Will pierce the gloom. I shall emerge some day.

  Robert Browning

  Stars, Dark, Sea

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• Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.

  Robert Browning

  Rocks, Water, Joy

  Robert Browning, Robert Morse Lovett (2009). “Selections from Robert Browning”, p.160, Wildside Press LLC

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• How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance; both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Lying, Men

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.244, Wordsworth Editions

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• A pretty woman's worth some pains to see,
  Nor is she spoiled, I take it, if a crown
  Completes the forehead pale and tresses pure.

  Robert Browning

  Pain, Women, Pretty Woman

  Robert Browning (1863). “Paracelsus. Pippa passes. King Victor and King Charles. Colombe's birthday”, p.316

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