Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Whoso loves believes the impossible. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Who so loves believes the impossible. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

What was he doing, the great god Pan, / Down in the reeds by the river? / Spreading ruin and scattering ban, / Splashing and paddling with hoofs of a goat, / And breaking the golden lilies afloat / With the dragon-fly on the river. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed -- and not for pay? Absurd -- or insincere? - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality? - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

What is art but life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite? - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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