Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes - Page 8

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• Anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not so in chemistry and mathematics. Nor is it so, I believe, in whist and the polka. But then these are more serious things.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Believe, Giving, Serious Things

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• The great chasm between the thing I say, and the thing I would say, would be quite dispiriting to me, in spite even of such kindnesses as yours, if the desire did not master the despondency.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Kindness, Desire, Would Be

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846”, p.17, The Floating Press

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• And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair; And they heard the words it said,- "Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!"

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Air, Rose, Spirit

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

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• 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 “Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford: the unpublished letters of Elizabeth Barrett Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford”

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• I remember, when I was a child and wrote poems in little clasped books, I used to kiss the books and put them away tenderly because I had been happy near them, and take them out by turns when I was going from home, to cheer them by the change of air and the pleasure of the new place. This, not for the sake of the verses written in them, and not for the sake of writing more verses in them, but from pure gratitude.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Gratitude, Cheer, Children

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846”, p.54, The Floating Press

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• Beloved, let us live so well our work shall still be better for our love, and still our love be sweeter for our work.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love Is, Our Love, Beloved

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• My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Long, Standing, Monument

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Philip Kelley, Ronald Hudson (1987). “The Brownings' correspondence”

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• I worked with patience which means almost power.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Patience, Mean

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.976, Delphi Classics

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• 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 lov'd, us'd -- well enough, I think, we've far'd, my heart and I.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Heart, Thinking, Doubt

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• The plague of gold strikes far and near.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Gold, Strikes, Plague

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1852). “The Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning”, p.273

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• Mountain gorses, do ye teach us
  . . . .
  That the wisest word man reaches
  Is the humblest he can speak?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Men, Mountain, Speak

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.102

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• Many a crown
  Covers bald foreheads.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Crowns, Royalty, Foreheads

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.332

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• How joyously the young sea-mew
  Lay dreaming on the waters blue,
  Whereon our little bark had thrown
  A little shade, the only one;
  But shadows ever man pursue.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Dream, Men, Blue

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.581, Delphi Classics

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• Sing, seraph with the glory! heaven is high.
  Sing, poet with the sorrow! earth is low.
  The universe's inward voices cry
  "Amen" to either song of joy and woe.
  Sing, seraph, poet! sing on equally!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Song, Voice, Joy

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1856). “Poems”, p.260

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• Earth may embitter, not remove,
  The love divinely given;
  And e'en that mortal grief shall prove
  The immortality of love,
  And lead us nearer heaven.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Grief, Heaven, Sorrow

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1838). “The seraphim, and other poems, by E.B. Barrett”, p.360

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• The tyrant should take heed to what he doth,
  Since every victim-carrion turns to use,
  And drives a chariot, like a god made wroth,
  Against each piled injustice.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Tyrants, Use, Injustice

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.297

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• The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, held out in the smoke, like stars by day.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Girl, Stars, Prayer

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.52

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• We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause; Good kings, who disemboweled for a tax; Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy; Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs; And damned the general world for standing up. Now, may the good God pardon all good men!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Christian, Kings, Men

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• And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Divinity, Divine, Chaucer

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Selected Poems”, p.145, Broadview Press

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• May the good God pardon all good men.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Men, Good Man, May

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

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• But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Strong, Children, Men

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “The Cry Of The Children”

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• Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Women, Way, Praying

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.349

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• The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Memories, Boys, Dust

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• There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Time, Laughter, Eye

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2007). “The Brownings' Correspondence: September 1849-January 1851, letters 2813-2900”

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• They say that God lives very high! But if you look above the pines You cannot see our God. And why? And if you dig down in the mines You never see Him in the gold, Though from Him all that's glory shines. God is so good, He wears a fold Of heaven and earth across His face - Like secrets kept, for love, untold. But still I feel that His embrace Slides down by thrills, through all things made, Through sight and sound of every place: As if my tender brother laid On my shut lids, her kisses' pressure, Half waking me at night; and said, "Who kissed through the dark, dear guesser?"

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Life, Brother, Dark

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1870). “Poems of the Intellect and the Affections”, p.64

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