Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

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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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• 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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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Whatever's lost, it first was won.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Firsts, Lost

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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