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Elizabeth Barrett Browning quotes

English Poet March 6, 1806 – June 29, 1861

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She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all(But that she had not lived enough to know) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote: "He lives most life whoever breathes most air."
He lives most life whoever breathes most air. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.' Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The critics say that epics have died out with Agamemnon and the goat-nursed gods; I'll not believe it. I could never deem as Payne Knight did, that Homer's heroes measured twelve feet high. They were but men: -his Helen's hair turned grey like any plain Miss Smith's who wears a front; And Hector's infant whimpered at a plume as yours last Friday at a turkey-cock. All heroes are essential men, and all men possible heroes: every age, heroic in proportions, double faced, looks backward and... Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote: "God's gifts put men's best dreams to shame."
God's gifts put men's best dreams to shame. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-roompiled high with cases in my father's name;Piled high, packed large, --where, creeping in and outamong the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mousebetween the ribs of a mastodon, I nibbled here and thereat this or that box, pulling through the gap, in heatsof terror, haste, victorious joy, the first book first.And how I felt it beat under my pillow, in the morning's dark.An hour before the sun would let me read!My books! Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote: "God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame."
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The face of all the world is changed, I think, Since first I heard the footsteps of they soul. Move still, oh, still, beside me... Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote: "The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble..."
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Men could not part us with their worldly jars, Nor the seas change us, nor the tempests bend; Our hands would touch for all the mountain-bars,--And, heaven being rolled between us at the end, We should but vow the faster for the stars. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Unlike we are, unlike, O princely Heart! Unlike our uses and our destinies... Thou, bethink thee, art. A guest for queens to social pageantries, With gages from a hundred brighter eyes. Than tears even can make mine... What hast though to do With looking from the lattice-lights at me, A poor, tired, wandering singer... Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote: "No man can be called friendless who has God and the..."
No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote: "With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and..."
With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature. 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
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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