Stills Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

12 Stills quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s 12 brief musings on stillness capture a delicate, lyrical calm. Each line reads like a soft stanza, inviting readers to linger in a quiet, reflective space.

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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…

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For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.

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And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and…

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And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.

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There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.

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The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation to the inward sense Of beauty…

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XI I sang his name instead of song; Over and over I sang his name: Backward and forward I sang it along,…

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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he…

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Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure Their blossoms from their roots, accessible Alone to heavenly dews that drop…

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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…

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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,…

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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…

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Many a crown Covers bald foreheads.

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And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.

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The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no…

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“The face of all the world is changed, I think, Since first I heard the footsteps of they soul Move still, oh, still, beside…

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

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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when…

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With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

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The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.

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

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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…

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Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens Of indurated…

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