Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browningwas one of the most prominent English poets of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth6 March 1806
inspirational motivational christmas
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
faith desire enough
If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.
disappear endure
Love that endures, from life that disappears!
love faith philosophical
Who so loves believes the impossible.
life love-life true-life
Whoever lives true life, will love true love.
life sweet song
Unless you can feel when the song is done No other is sweet in its rhythm; Unless you can feel when left by one That all men else go with him.
love death answers
Guess now who holds thee?'--'Death,' I said. But, there, The silver answer rang, . . . 'Not Death, but Love.
silence fool cool-status
Silence is the best response to a fool...
song brave soul
O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.
work
Get work: Be sure it is better than what you work to get.
drama light silence
The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech: It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the painted scene, Boards, actors, prompters, gaslight, and costume, And take for a worthier stage the soul itself, Its shifting fancies and celestial lights, With all its grand orchestral silences To keep the pauses of its rhythmic sounds.
grief men air
I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach
memories genius might
The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.
light way calling
The English have a scornful insular way Of calling the French light.