Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

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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.

• 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.

• truth outlives pain, as the soul does life.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Truth, Pain, Soul

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.451

• The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech: It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the painted scene, Boards, actors, prompters, gaslight, and costume, And take for a worthier stage the soul itself, Its shifting fancies and celestial lights, With all its grand orchestral silences To keep the pauses of its rhythmic sounds.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Drama, Light, Silence

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Aurora Leigh by Elizabeth Barret Browning”, p.163

• The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Men, Soul, He Man

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1176, Delphi Classics

• A man may love a woman perfectly, and yet by no means ignorantly maintain a thousand women have not larger eyes. Enough that she alone has looked at him with eyes that, large or small, have won his soul.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Mean, Eye, Men

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.464

• Who can fear
  Too many stars, though each in heaven shall roll-
  Too many flowers, though each shall crown the year?
  Say thou dost love me, love me, love me-toll
  The silver iterance!-only minding, Dear,
  To love me also in silence, with thy soul.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Life, Stars, Flower

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.146

• What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its own fault. These tears in our eyes, these faintings of the flesh, will not hinder such improvement.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Eye, Soul, Tears

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846”, p.59, The Floating Press

• A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, in science, but she fears to let the perfect action take her part and rest there: she must prove what she can do before she does it, -- prate of woman's rights, of woman's mission, woman's function, till the men (who are prating, too, on their side) cry, A woman's function plainly is... to talk. Poor souls, they are very reasonably vexed!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Art, Women, Mean

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1864). “Poems”, p.353

• The soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak,And placed it by thee on a golden throne,-- And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!)Is by thee only, whom I love alone.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Soul, Thrones, Golden

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

• We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth-- 'Tis then we get the right good from a book.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Book, Reading, Profound

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.331

• The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Business, Soul, Curls

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.790, Delphi Classics

• 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

• Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, Now tell me if that any is. For gift or grace, surpassing this-- He giveth His beloved sleep.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Sleep, Grace, Soul

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.68

• Souls are dangerous things to carry straight through all the spilt saltpetre of this world.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Soul, World, Dangerous

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

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Freedom, Soul, Should

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

• Souls are gregarious in a sense, but no soul touches another, as a general rule.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Soul, Gregarious

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1984). “The Brownings' Correspondence”

• 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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