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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
English
Poet
About the author
If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
English
Poet
#Love
Since when was genius found respectable?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
English
Poet
#Genius
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
English
Poet
#Life
#Idea
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,
English
Poet
#Love
#World
#Pain
#Cruelty
Who so loves believes the impossible.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
English
Poet
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
English
Poet
#Power
#Individuality
#Genius
What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
English
Poet
#Dream
#Taste
#Wine
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,
English
Poet
#Death
For tis not in mere death that men die most.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
English
Poet
#Death
#Men
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
English
Poet
#Love
#Soul
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
English
Poet
#Right
#Wrong
#Beauty
#Force
#Weakness
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
English
Poet
#Love
Light tomorrow with today!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
English
Poet
#Light
#Tomorrow
He lives most life whoever breathes most air.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
English
Poet
#Life
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
English
Poet
#God
#Dreams
#Man
#Shame
#Gifts
If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
English
Poet
#Faith
#Desire
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,
English
Poet
#Life
#Girls
#Fire
#Shame
#Wishing
#Blush
#Gnats
How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
English
Poet
#Comfort
#Earth
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
English
Poet
#Time
#First
Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
English
Poet
#Earth
#Heaven
But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
English
Poet
#Man
#Silence
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
English
Poet
#Reading
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,
English
Poet
#Man
#Light
An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
English
Poet
#May
#Ignorance
#Greatness
A woman is always younger than a man at equal years.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
English
Poet
#Years
#Man
#Woman
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
English
Poet
#God
#Answers
My sun sets to raise again.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
English
Poet
#Sun
Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
English
Poet
#Will
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
English
Poet
#Love
#God
#Death
#Smiles
#Tears
He said true things, but called them by wrong names.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
English
Poet
#Wrong
#Names