QUOTES by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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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
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Our Euripides the human, With his droppings of warm tears, and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres.
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The soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak, And placed it by thee on a golden throne, -- And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!) Is by thee only, whom I love alone.
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Love doesn't make the world go round, Love is what makes the ride worthwhile!
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And I breathe large at home. I drop my cloak, Unclasp my girdle, loose the band that ties My hair...now could I but unloose my soul! We are sepulchred alive in this close world, And want more room.
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I take her as God made her, and as men Must fail to unmake her, for my honoured wife.
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Say over again, and yet once over again, That thou dost love me...-toll The silver iterance!
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A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all . . .
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I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
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At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
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Did you think of that? Who burns his viol will not dance, I know. To cymbals, Romney.
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The great chasm between the thing I say, & the thing I would say, wd be quite dispiriting to me, in spite even of such kindnesses as yours, if the desire did not master the despondency.
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A cheerful genius suits the times, / And all true poets laugh unquenchably / Like Shakespeare and the gods.
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Betwixt me and the dreadful outer brink Of obvious death, where I, who thought to sink, Was caught up into love, and taught the whole Of life in a new rhythm.
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Yes," I answered you last night; "No," this morning, sir, I say. Colours seen by candlelight Will not look the same by day.
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The heart doth recognise thee, Alone, alone! The heart doth smell thee sweet, Doth view thee fair, doth judge thee most complete,—- Though seeing now those changes that disguise thee.
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