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

Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning part 2

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 moment’s 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 property—is 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