Q - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Posted on 21st January 2021
Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 – 1861 was an English poet during the Victorian period of history.
‘What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality’
‘He lives most life whoever breathes most air’
‘I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach’
‘Measure not the work until the days out and the labour done’
‘A woman’s always younger than a man at equal years’
‘You’re something between a dream and a miracle’
‘Who so loves believes the impossible’
‘No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books’
‘I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you’
‘True knowledge comes only through suffering’
‘Two human loves make one divine’
‘The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness’
‘I should not dare to call my soul my own’
‘Books succeed; and lives fail’
Two much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun’
‘The devil’s most devilish when respectable’
‘Whatever’s lost, it first was won’
‘Folded eyes see brighter colours than the open ever do’
‘Whoever lives true life, will love true love’
‘Love doesn’t make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile!’
‘Silence is the best response to a fool’
‘An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all’
‘You were made perfectly to be loved – and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long’
‘With stammering lips and insufficient sound, I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature’
‘Utterance is the evidence of foregone study’
‘Never say No when the world says Aye’
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