Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
Meaning of the quote
When you listen to music, you may feel less alone. The music can make you feel like you have company, even if you are by yourself. The quote suggests that music has a way of making people feel connected to something bigger, even when they are on their own.
More quotes from Robert Browning
A minute’s success pays the failure of years.
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Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!
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What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
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Oh, to be in England now that April’s there.
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How good is man’s life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
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Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
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Faultless to a fault.
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The moment eternal – just that and no more – When ecstasy’s utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!
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Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
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Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
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What’s a man’s age? He must hurry more, that’s all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
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Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
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Love is energy of life.
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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.
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But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one’s eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.
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God is the perfect poet.
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White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life’s business being just the terrible choice.
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On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
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That’s the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
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So, fall asleep love, loved by me… for I know love, I am loved by thee.
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Ambition is not what man does… but what man would do.
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The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
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Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
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If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
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My sun sets to rise again.
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Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp. Or what’s a heaven for?
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Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
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Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
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Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
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I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.
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You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.
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I count life just a stuff to try the soul’s strength on.
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I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
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