Source: The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846
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Famous Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes
“Like to write? Of course, of course I do. I seem to live while I write - it is life, for me.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)
“Books are men of higher stature.”
Source: Poetical works
“Art is much, but love is more.”
Source: Poetical works
Source: The Poetical Works of
“I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm.”
Source: Poetical works
“Yet how proud we are, In daring to look down upon ourselves!”
Source: Poetical works
“The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.”
“Love that endures, from life that disappears!”
Source: Sonnets from the Portuguese
“New angel mine, unhoped for in the world!”
Source: A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: Poetical works
“With what cracked pitchers go we to deep wells In this world!”
Source: Poems
“Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!”
Source: The Poetical Works of
“Don't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point?”
“There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.”
Source: Browning: Poems
“My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.”
Source: The Brownings' Correspondence
“All actual heroes are essential men, And all men possible heroes.”
Source: Poetical works
“No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.”
Source: Aurora Leigh
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)
Source: Sonnets from the Portuguese
Source: Selected poems
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)
“If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.”
“Who so loves believes the impossible.”
Source: Aurora Leigh. Author's ed
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)
“God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.”
Source: Browning: Poems
Source: Andromeda in Wimpole Street: the love story of Robert and Elizabeth Browning told in their letters
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)
“I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.”
“What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?”
Source: Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford: the unpublished letters of Elizabeth Barrett Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford
“What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.”
Source: Sonnets from the Portuguese and Other Poems
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)