Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes - Page 3

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• If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Faith, Desire, Enough

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• 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

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• Whoso loves, believes in the impossible

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Believe, Impossible

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

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• The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Happiness, Death, Greek

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1033, Delphi Classics

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• Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Beauty, Sun, Too Much

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”

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• 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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• And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness; Round our restlessness, His rest.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Greatness, Thinking, Incompleteness

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.254

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• And wilt thou have me fashion into speech The love I bear thee, finding words enough, And hold the torch out, while the winds are rough, Between our faces, to cast light on each? - I dropt it at thy feet. I cannot teach My hand to hold my spirits so far off From myself--me--that I should bring thee proof In words, of love hid in me out of reach. Nay, let the silence of my womanhood Commend my woman-love to thy belief, - Seeing that I stand unwon, however wooed, And rend the garment of my life, in brief, By a most dauntless, voiceless fortitude, Lest one touch of this heart convey its grief.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Fashion, Grief, Heart

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “Sonnets from the Portuguese”, p.18, The Floating Press

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• The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Gratitude

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846”, p.9, The Floating Press

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• I begin to think that none are so bold as the timid, when they are fairly roused.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Thinking, Weakness

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Daniel Karlin (1989). “Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett: the courtship correspondence, 1845-1846 : a selection”

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• How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Simple, Comfort, Earth

  'Aurora Leigh' (1857) bk. 3, l. 1121

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• His ears were often the first thing to catch my tears.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Animal, Tears, Firsts

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• Since when was genius found respectable?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Respect, Genius, Statistics

  'Aurora Leigh' (1857) bk. 6, l. 275

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• Enough! we're tired, my heart and I. We sit beside the headstone thus, And wish that name were carved for us. The moss reprints more tenderly The hard types of the mason's knife, As Heaven's sweet life renews earth's life With which we're tired, my heart and I .... In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days grew rough We once were loved, used, - well enough, I think, we've fared, my heart and I.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Sweet, Tired, Heart

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1259, Delphi Classics

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• 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

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• 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

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• Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Girl, Sorry, Fire

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.957, Delphi Classics

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• Nosegays! leave them for the waking,
  Throw them earthward where they grew
  Dim are such, beside the breaking
  Amaranths he looks unto.
  Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Eye, Color, Looks

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.256

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• Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Time, Memories, Anticipation

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning (1947). “The poetry of the Brownings: an anthology”

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• And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Grace, Vain, Still In Love

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.143

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• Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Music, Hands, Musician

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.81

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• The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Courage, Knights, Bravery

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1099, Delphi Classics

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• In your patience ye are strong.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Patience, Strong

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.254

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• God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Lilies, Rich, Poor

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.146

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• If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Thee, Ifs

  Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, Rainer Maria Rilke (2017). “Sonnets from the Portuguese / Sonette aus dem Portugiesischen: Englisch und Deutsch”, p.72, BoD – Books on Demand

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