Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes - Page 4

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

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Freedom, Soul, Should

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

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• O pusillanimous Heart, be comforted
  And, like a cheerful traveller, take the road
  Singing beside the hedge.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Heart, Singing, Cheerful

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.84

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• Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Children, Brain, Age

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.276

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• I would not be a rose upon the wall
  A queen might stop at, near the palace-door,
  To say to a courtier, "Pluck that rose for me,
  It's prettier than the rest." O Romney Leigh!
  I'd rather far be trodden by his foot,
  Than lie in a great queen's bosom.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Life, Queens, Wall

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh”, p.129

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• When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Death, Horse, Men

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.867, Delphi Classics

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• The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Larks, Littles, Soar

  1856 Aurora Leigh, bk.3.

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• 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

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• 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

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• O rose, who dares to name thee?
  No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet,
  But pale, and hard, and dry, as stubblewheat,
  Kept seven years in a drawer, thy titles shame thee.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Sweet, Flower, Years

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “The Poetical Works of”, p.409

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• Eyes of gentianellas azure,
  Staring, winking at the skies.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Eye, Sky, Azure

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning (1872). “A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning”, p.11

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• Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Morning, Night, Light

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Sonnets from the Portuguese”, p.74, Doubleday

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• Where Christ brings His cross He brings His presence; and where He is none are desolate, and there is no room for despair.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Despair, Rooms, Christ

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Theodore Tilton (1862). “Last Poems”, p.68

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• What is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Art, Lines, Ascending

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1029, Delphi Classics

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• 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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• Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my father’s name; Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and out Among the giant fossils of my past, Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there At this or that box, pulling through the gap, In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, The first book first. And how I felt it beat Under my pillow, in the morning’s dark, An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Morning, Father, Book

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1998). “Aurora Leigh”, p.103, OUP Oxford

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• 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

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• Thank God for grace, Ye who weep only! If, as some have done, Ye grope tear-blinded in a desert place And touch but tombs,--look up! Those tears will run Soon in long rivers down the lifted face, And leave the vision clear for stars and sun.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Running, Stars, Rivers

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.80

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• Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Wall, Ivy, Weather

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.470

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• Knowledge by suffering entereth,
  And life is perfected by death.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Life, Death, Knowledge

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.231

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• Will that light come again, As now these tears come...falling hot and real!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Real, Fall, Light

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.191, Everyman's Library

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• Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Mom, Mother, Baby

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.321

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• My future will not copy my fair past, I wrote that once. And, thinking at my side my ministering life-angel justified the word by his appealing look upcast to the white throne of God.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Angel, Past, Thinking

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning (1872). “A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning”, p.235

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• And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Memorial Day, Hero, Men

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1188, Delphi Classics

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• With what cracked pitchers go we to deep wells In this world!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  World, Pitcher, Wells

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1864). “Poems”, p.328

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• Unless you can muse in a crowd all day On the absent face that fixed you; Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you; Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbehoving; Unless you can die when the dream is past — Oh, never call it loving!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Dream, Angel, Past

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1992). “Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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