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Elizabeth Barrett Browning quotes

English Poet March 6, 1806 – June 29, 1861

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote: "World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is..."
World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote: "Beloved, let us live so well our work shall still be better..."
Beloved, let us live so well our work shall still be better for our love, and still our love be sweeter for our work. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote: "Who so loves believes the impossible."
Who so loves believes the impossible. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote: "I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can..."
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote: "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the..."
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height. My soul can reach Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote: "Say over again, and yet once over again, That thou dost love..."
Say over again, and yet once over again, That thou dost love me...-tollThe silver iterance! Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote: "If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's..."
If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote: "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its own fault. These tears in our eyes, these faintings of the flesh, will not hinder such improvement. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had flung. A shadow across me. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl? Elizabeth Barrett Browning
What is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite? Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
O Life, How oft we throw it off and think,? 'Enough, Enough of life in so much!? here's a cause. For rupture;? herein we must break with Life, Or be ourselves unworthy; here we are wronged, Maimed, spoiled for aspiration: farewell Life!' Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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