Robert Browning Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

  Robert Browning

  Love, Life, Positive

  Robert Browning (2013). “MEN AND WOMEN Songs of love and life”, p.55, Lulu.com

• Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

  Robert Browning

  Soul, Earth

  'Rabbi Ben Ezra' (1864) st. 27

• On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.

  Robert Browning

  Broken Heart, Perfect, Heaven

  'Abt Vogler' (1864) st. 9

• Earth is crammed with heavens.

  Robert Browning

  Heaven, Earth

• Earth being so good, would heaven seem best?

  Robert Browning

  Heaven, World, Earth

  Robert Browning (1889). “Dramatic Romances”, p.54, Library of Alexandria

• Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!

  Robert Browning

  Pain, Learning, Joy

  Robert Browning (2007). “Poems by Robert Browning (Student Edition)”, p.122, Wildside Press LLC

• I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced thee to be wise.

  Robert Browning

  Wise, Earth, Reason

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.419, Oxford University Press, USA

• Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due? No forcing earth teach heaven's employ?

  Robert Browning

  Time, Heaven, Done

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.396, Oxford University Press, USA

• There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with for evil so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.

  Robert Browning

  Evil, Broken, Perfect

  'Abt Vogler' (1864) st. 9

• In the morning of the world, When earth was nigher heaven than now.

  Robert Browning

  Morning, Heaven, World

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.180, Wordsworth Editions

• It 's wiser being good than bad; It 's safer being meek than fierce; It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That after Last returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched.

  Robert Browning

  Clouds, Mad, Earth

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.519, Wordsworth Editions

• Why stay on the earth except to grow.

  Robert Browning

  Learning, Earth, Grows

• What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?

  Robert Browning

  Art, Wedding Anniversary, Found

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.476, Wordsworth Editions

• What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.

  Robert Browning

  Art, Practice, Perfection

  'Old Pictures in Florence' (1855) st. 17

• O woman-country! wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth's male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead.

  Robert Browning

  Country, Heart, Land

  Robert Browning, Robert Browning (Dichter, Grossbritannien) (1995). “Men and women”

• The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth.

  Robert Browning

  Heart, Heaven, Earth

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.309, Wordsworth Editions

• Fair or foul the lot apportioned life on earth, we bear alike.

  Robert Browning

  Fate, Bears, Earth

  Robert Browning (2008). “The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, La Saisiaz, Etc.”, p.61, Wildside Press LLC

• Oh, good gigantic smile o' the brown old earth, This autumn morning! How he sets his bones To bask i' the sun, and thrusts out knees and feet. From the ripple to run over in its mirth

  Robert Browning

  Running, Morning, Autumn

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.207

• Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.

  Robert Browning

  Art, Heaven, Sabbath

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.166, Wordsworth Editions

• In heaven I yearn for knowledge, account all else inanity; On earth I confess an itch for the praise of fools - that's vanity

  Robert Browning

  Vanity, Heaven, Earth

  Robert Browning, David Ewbank (2007). “The Complete Works of Robert Browning: Volume XV, with Variant Readings and Annotations”, p.82, Ohio University Press

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