Long Quote by Dorothy Fields

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] ... for finish, and melody of versification, there is nothing approaching to Miss Barrett in this day, or in any…

— Mary Russell Mitford

[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius.

— Mary Russell Mitford

“When she thought she was nearly finished, she noticed that the next shelf started up again with Browne. After that came Browning. She groaned,…

— Betty Smith

“My love of publishing goes back to my first job on the hometown newspaper when I was a 16-year-old cub reporter, but I caught…

— Phil Cousineau

I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet

— Jane Austen

There's a line in The Barretts of Wimpole Street - you know, the play - where Elizabeth Barrett is trying to work out the…

— Susanna Kearsley

We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

— Carl Sandburg

“My letters! All dead paper, mute and white! And yet they seem alive and quivering Against my tremulous hands which loose the string.… —ELIZABETH…

— Margaret Atwood

If I could get that girl [Courtney Love] to publish her poetry, the world would change.

— Kurt Cobain

I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems.

— Frederick Busch

She was not a poet. She was a poem.

— Deborah Levy

“Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many…

— Oscar Wilde