Robert Browning Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

  Robert Browning

  Soul, Earth

  'Rabbi Ben Ezra' (1864) st. 27

• I count life just a stuff
  To try the soul's strength on.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Strength, Soul

  'In a Balcony' (1855) l. 651

• Thought is the soul of act.

  Robert Browning

  Soul

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.46

• 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

• What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?

  Robert Browning

  Kissing, Romantic Love, Teenage Love

  "A Toccata of Galuppi's" l. 42 (1855)

• For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace out of pain, Then a light, then thy breast, O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again, And with God be the rest!

  Robert Browning

  Pain, Light, Voice

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.497, Wordsworth Editions

• God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures
  Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with,
  One to show a woman when he loves her.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Life, Two

  'One Word More' (1855) st. 17

• And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again.

  Robert Browning

  Book, Ignorance, Soul

  'Cleon' (1855) l. 57

• The body sprang At once to the height, and stayed; but the soul,-no!

  Robert Browning

  Soul, Body, Height

  Robert Browning (1872). “The Poetical Works of Robert Browning”

• 'Tis an awkward thing to play with souls.

  Robert Browning

  Play, Soul, Awkward

  'A Light Woman' (1855) st. 12

• The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!

  Robert Browning

  Life, Angel, Law

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.491, Wordsworth Editions

• I trust in Nature for the stable laws Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant And Autumn garner to the end of time. I trust in God,-the right shall be the right And other than the wrong, while he endures. I trust in my own soul, that can perceive The outward and the inward,-Nature's good And God's.

  Robert Browning

  Beauty, Spring, Autumn

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1841-1846”, p.192, Pearson Education

• Out of your whole life give but a moment! All of your life that has gone before, All to come after it, -so you ignore, So you make perfect the present, condense, In a rapture of rage, for perfection's endowment, Thought and feeling and soul and sense.

  Robert Browning

  Giving, Perfect, Soul

  Robert Browning, “Now!”

• How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!

  Robert Browning

  Life, Heart, Men

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

• 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

• I want to know a butcher paints, A baker rhymes for his pursuit, Candlestick-maker much acquaints His soul with song, or, haply mute, Blows out his brains upon the flute.

  Robert Browning

  Song, Blow, Soul

  'Shop' (1876) st. 21

• All good things
  Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!

  Robert Browning

  Soul, Flesh, Helping

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.403, Oxford University Press, USA

• Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul's wings never furled!

  Robert Browning

  Men, Wings, Soul

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.40

• Wander at will,
  Day after day,--
  Wander away,
  Wandering still--
  Soul that canst soar!
  Body may slumber:
  Body shall cumber
  Soul-flight no more.

  Robert Browning

  Soul, May, Slumber

  Robert Browning (2003). “Robert Browning”, p.44, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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