Best Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sayings
- I f thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile… Beloved
- Or from Browning some "Pomegranate," which if cut deep down the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity. Blood
- He who breathes deepest lives most. Breathe
- A grave, on which to rest from singing? From
- If you desire faith, then you have faith enough. Desire
- Earth's crammed with Heaven. Crammed
- A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips. Behind
- Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west. Bird
- World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain. Bane
- "There is no God," the foolish saith, But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of faith In bitter need will borrow:… Bitter
- 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… Across
- The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small Are close-knot strands of an unbroken thread There love ennobles all.… All
- What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all. All
- Whoso loves, believes in the impossible Believe
- But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave. Genius
- When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . . Build
- Death forerunneth Love to win "Sweetest eyes were ever seen." Death
- There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time! All
- Get work: Be sure it is better than what you work to get. Better
- The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech: It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the painted scene, Boards,… Actors
- I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne… Access
- 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… Boy
- There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud. Blue
- The essence of all beauty, I call love. All
- But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath! Child
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