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Quote by Robert Browning

“If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.”

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Robert Browning was a prominent Victorian poet known for his intricate poetic structures and profound psychological insights. His works covered themes such as love, death, religion, and morality, and had a profound impact on later poets. more

“A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving in a lake is not immediately to swim to the shore; it’s to be in the lake, to luxuriate in the sensation of water. You do not work the lake out. It is an experience beyond thought. Poetry soothes and emboldens the soul to accept mystery.”

Needs Soul Poetry Understanding Water Accepting Mystery Senses Lakes Sensations Swim Shore Diving Bright Star

Author:John Keats

“The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!”

Gone Sweet

Author:John Keats

“Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers.”

Purpose Intellectual Productions Ripening

Book:The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats

Source: The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats

“I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.”

Principles Gratitude All Things

Author:John Keats

“The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One.”

Three Holy Truth Is Glory Ideals Three In One

Book:Poems: The First Edition

Source: Poems: The First Edition

“O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed.”

Men Mind Fall Mountain Sheer Cliffs

Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins

“What are works of art for? to educate, to be standards. To produce is of little use unless what we produce is known, is widely known, the wider known the better, for it is by being known that it works, it influences, it does its duty, it does good. We must try, then, to be known, aim at it, take means to it. And this without puffing in the process or pride in the success.”

Trying Mean Littles Doe Art Use Process Known Influence Produce Duty Pride Standards Aim Working It Works Of Art Educate

Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters

“Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.”

Relation Comparison Apprehension Hopkins

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)

“It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.”

Knows World Should Flying Royal Happy Things

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)

“Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.”

Knows Doubt Happened Horrible Do You Know Horrible Things Tennyson

Book:Selected Letters

Source: Selected Letters

Quote by Robert Browning

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