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Elizabeth Barrett Browning (March 6 1806 – June 29 1861) was an English poet and the wife of Robert Browning.
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“Whoso loves
Believes the impossible.”
Believes the impossible.”
“Every wish
Is like a prayer—with God.”
Is like a prayer—with God.”
“Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man.”
“Dreams of doing good
For good-for-nothing people.”
For good-for-nothing people.”
“Since when was genius found respectable?”
“I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.”
“And Chaucer, with his infantine
Familiar clasp of things divine.”
Familiar clasp of things divine.”
“Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And life is perfected by death.”
And life is perfected by death.”
“Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand
Henceforward in thy shadow.”
Henceforward in thy shadow.”
“The beautiful seems right
By force of Beauty, and the feeble wrong
Because of weakness.”
By force of Beauty, and the feeble wrong
Because of weakness.”
“And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben,
Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when
The world was worthy of such men.”
Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when
The world was worthy of such men.”
“There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb
The crowns o’ the world; oh, eyes sublime
With tears and laughter for all time!”
The crowns o’ the world; oh, eyes sublime
With tears and laughter for all time!”
“Or from Browning some "Pomegranate," which, if cut deep down the middle,
shows a heart within blood-tinctured of a veined humanity.”
shows a heart within blood-tinctured of a veined humanity.”
“"Yes," I answered you last night;
"No," this morning, Sir, I say.
Colours seen by candlelight,
Will not look the same by day.”
"No," this morning, Sir, I say.
Colours seen by candlelight,
Will not look the same by day.”
“Hush, call no echo up in further proof
Of desolation! there's a voice within
That weeps . . . as thou must sing . . . alone, aloof.”
Of desolation! there's a voice within
That weeps . . . as thou must sing . . . alone, aloof.”
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Flowers 10 quotes
“With her ankles sunken in asphodel She wept for the roses of earth which fell.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Love 9 quotes
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“Red as a rose of Harpocrate.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Poetry about love 7 quotes
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“* * * Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Patience 3 quotes
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“I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Kissing 3 quotes
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“Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, Now tell me if that any is, For gift or grace, surpassing this— "He giveth His beloved sleep."”
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Women 10 quotes
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“Camoens, with that look he had, Compelling India's Genius sad From the wave through the Lusiad, With murmurs of a purple ocean Indrawn in vibrative emotion Along the verse!”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning on William Shakespeare
“There, Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world. Oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time.”
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Gerda Lerner on Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Feminist literary critics have shown how in the 19th century women writers began to acknowledge women as their muses and their role models...Elizabeth Barrett Browning admired the work of George Sand and Mme. de Staël, while her work, in its turn, was an inspiration to Emily Dickinson.,,all of the American nineteenth-century woman's rights leaders considered Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh an inspiration. The list could be indefinitely extended to show the almost desperate search of writing women for authoritative female predecessors.”
Alicia Ostriker on Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Anger has always played a role in poetry...You can find powerful anger in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poems on slavery and child labor. In her anti-slavery poem “A Curse for a Nation,” she has an angel explaining that “A curse from the lips of womanhood / Is very salt, and bitter, and good.” Barrett Browning was roundly condemned in her own time for writing about politics.”
Naomi Shihab Nye on Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Life Loves/to change, wrote poet John Masefield,/in the cobbled town of Ledbury, Herefordshire,/Elizabeth Barrett Browning's town too./.../I felt drunk on general coziness.../thinking of Elizabeth,/whose "father never spoke to her again," once she/had a child (what was his problem?),/and Masefield, who suffered intense seasickness/yet wrote about going down to the sea/as if it were his favorite act/.../Life loves to change-but some of us want to/stay.”
Adrienne Rich on Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Emily Dickinson was always stirred by the existences of women like George Eliot or Elizabeth Barrett, who possessed strength of mind, articulateness, and energy. (She once characterized Elizabeth Fry and Florence Nightingale as "holy"-one suspects she merely meant, "great.")”
About Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (March 6 1806 – June 29 1861) was an English poet and the wife of Robert Browning.