"At painful times, when composition is impossible and……" — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
"At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction."
—
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
185 Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning has 185 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.
-
How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
-
My sun sets to raise again.
-
Since when was genius found respectable?
-
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since,…
-
The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I…
-
If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
-
Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.
-
Who so loves believes the impossible.
-
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours…
-
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
-
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my…
See all 185 quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning »
More Composition Quotes
This quote is filed under Composition Quotes,
one of 417 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense,…
— Joseph Addison
-
My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition;…
— Annie Besant
-
Any government, of whatever composition, needs to mobilise opinion way beyond its own ranks in order to do the difficult…
— Nick Clegg
-
When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together.…
— Tadao Ando
-
To plant is but a part of landscape composition; to co-ordinate is all.
— Christopher Tunnard
-
When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition,…
— Joseph Addison
-
In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of…
— Julia Cameron
-
He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer…
— Hector Hugh Munro
-
My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to…
— Maurice Ravel
-
As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to…
— Isaac Newton
-
If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars,…
— Guglielmo Marconi
-
From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to…
— James Nasmyth
See all 417 Composition Quotes »