Poetry Quote by Robert Browning Download Open image ““Who was a queen and loved a poet once Humpbacked, a dwarf? ah, women can do that!”” — Robert Browning ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry
“I was a modern young woman, fearless and capable (with mace spray in my robe’s right pocket), and I didn’t care who knew it.… — Erik Bundy Copy Share Image
“I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched old sailors on the shore stare mutely… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all the way through… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
“Isn’t that what all human women wish for? A handsome faerie lord to wed and shower them with riches for the rest of their… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“She has never seen a dwarf before, he realized, much less a dwarf without a nose. He made a face, and stuck his tongue… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“All dwarfs have beards and wear up to twelve layers of clothing. Gender is more or less optional.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“In a single breast I never have seen More wealth of wisdom old; But with treacherous wiles must I now betray thee: The day… — Henry Adams Bellows (trans Copy Share Image
“Of all the women to wander into his lonely life, it had to be the cousin of the queen. That alone put her firmly… — Vivienne Savage Copy Share Image
“Her occupation was the worst that anyone could think of. No guest in the park had to think of it because, unlike the wandering… — Pam Jones Copy Share Image
I would have rummaged, ransacked at the word; Those old odd corners of an empty heart; For remnants of dim love the long disused,… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph.” — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
All service ranks the same with God,- With God, whose puppets, best and worst, Are we: there is no last nor first. — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“Have you found your life distasteful? My life did and does smack sweet. Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? Mine I save and hold… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“I was ever a fighter, so---one fight more, The best and the last! I would hate that death bandaged my eyes and forbore, and… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past? — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents. — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy! — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware. — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing! — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture! — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
