Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Who so loves believes the impossible. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The soul, bent on itself, is a barren vine. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Light tomorrow with today. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
He lives most life whoever breathes most air. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Earth’s crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, and thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, a gauntlet with a gift in it. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
You know no more of God than bell-beasts do of Homer. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
God keeps a niche In Heaven, to hold our idols; and albeit He brake them to our faces, and denied That our close kisses should impair their white, I know we shall behold them raised, complete, The dust swept from their beauty,glorified, New Memnons singing in the great God-light. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Ignorance is not innocence, but sin. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Expectation, like the dew of the morning, makes no noise, but goes all over the earth, and after some time you find it is soaked everywhere. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Fruitless kisses that have kept the hunger of my mouth time to hunger. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The dejection of a person, or of a nation, is not always felt at the time. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sins, sins! how sweet they seem doing what we please. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Vanity makes knowledge disdainful, discards candor as a weakness, counts routine what is deeply felt, confuses submission with obedience, and is indulgent to the sensations of skepticism which it calls the right of private judgment. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Bread. Bred. I trust in her forever, to feed me upon milk, and to view me as her child, with her head doing grace by my side. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The poet never gives us his background and experience; he gives us much rather a purified essence of them. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Like the vague blurred symbols in an ale-house of bachelor-poets. Like the faces blurred with smoke. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Trust me, no torture has so much power, to wring the lingering moments of an hour, as the brief pause which leaves me in suspense a moments pause of life, how great a non-sense! – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love, you came to me like a diamond in the roach, and crickets got all tangled in your hair, my heart betwisting like a poison so great. A black bird bursts through my heart, my darling, and comes north, his eyes wrapped in light. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It lives, the throbbing life of fueling and supreme, through blooming years shut in a single room. And in this little cage our hearts caught fire, and long for distant seas and dying fires. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
You are my _own_ for ever! who arrive To drive away my thoughts of death, and see Red roses flourish in my cheeks again, And put rough time to bed, and kiss his sword. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I, so utterly ill that I lie here in Rome, ill as this tortured statue. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I, beyond this earth, this silent sea of God. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A earthquake wrecks the village as they sleep. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Not by my verse, Prince! is my spirit stirred. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My old misogynies began their old European labor. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sex and religion surround us, dog sex jirking at abortion, straight Catholics refusing abortion, religion in totality forcing celibacy on priest appetites. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Declaration similar to our own makes a difference of considerable. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I am as ignorant of women’s minds as they of ours. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Lo, you, I am dumb! – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
You unfasten my heart, disputing, my heart, my mirror! – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Just once more do I think of you tonight. Does your head rest unruffled and without wailing to the sky? Do birds pacing your sleep flood your heavenly room? And how begins this evening of forgiveness? – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Though I, nor ever felt a doubt- nor ever cause for doubt perceived. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
You do not praise The Lord with me! It is his will, his will. I call him Father. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A dream has burst the roof off! – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Days of Elizabeth. Elizabeth and Elizabeth some distant cousin of Elizabeth such a companion for Elizabeth! – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
You would show me a flower, a beautiful flower, to show me the face of beauty! – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Now persist, ignition of every flame! Spread your golden glow; do not spread! Damn all the broken ice! You have come, you have come too quick! – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Proud and confident you ride the great winds of night. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Earthly sound dies. Even the laments of weeping are swallowed by the sweetness of its wind. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Locks and keys, walls, stairs, noises, a child at the door. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Who thinks thy neighbor, who loves thy propertyis he not sincere? – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I am not completely purged. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Therefore your Bible, Pope, speaks of God as good and as hateful to sin. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Nature! nature is ever best! Except in love. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Be the unseen shadow of a laughing child, the courage of the woman crying at birth. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning