Diction Quote by Mary Russell Mitford

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

— Mary Russell Mitford

Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?

— Dorothy Fields

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

“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

I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and…

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

“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

I entirely agree with you about the obscurity of Mrs Browning's line about the stars. It is far-fetched. She wanted to express something which…

— Marie Corelli

“She’d already scanned every word a hundred times, absorbing every nuance in gradation and every stray mark of her mother’s pen—from the depth of…

— Laekan Zea Kemp

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

— Carl Sandburg

“A poem by Margot Bickel A little peace within the last hours of the almost bygone day a little silence between the days so…

— Margot Bickel

“Like an unfinished symphony, her story played on my mind for most of my life. It would rock to the tune of the passage…

— Sally Armstrong

My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm,…

— James Fenton