Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

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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.

• 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”

• Who so loves believes the impossible.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Faith, Believe

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh. Author's ed”, p.195

• 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.

• 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.

• I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Wedding, Soulmate

• 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

• Whoever lives true life, will love true love.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Life, Love Life

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh”, p.36

• 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

• 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

• It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think - and it is not at all monstrous in me to say that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Photography, Lying

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1954). “Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford: the unpublished letters of Elizabeth Barrett Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford”

• Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Zero, Tennis

• But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Justice, Genius

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Theodore Tilton (1862). “Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning: From the Last London Edition”, p.81

• When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . .

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Events, Firsts

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.149

• Death forerunneth Love to win "Sweetest eyes were ever seen."

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Eye, Winning

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.96

• The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small Are close-knot strands of an unbroken thread There love ennobles all. The world may sound no trumpets, ring no bells The book of life the shining record tells. Thy love shall chant its own beatitudes After its own life-workings. A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt serve thyself by every sense, Of service which thou renderest.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Life, Strong

• Whoso loves, believes in the impossible

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Believe, Impossible

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

• 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

• 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

• Guess now who holds thee?'--'Death,' I said. But,
  there,
  The silver answer rang, . . . 'Not Death, but Love.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Death, Answers

  'Sonnets from the Portuguese' (1850) no. 1

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