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
breathe drink feels
Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully.
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.
love faith philosophical
Who so loves believes the impossible.
life love-life true-life
Whoever lives true life, will love true love.
silence fool cool-status
Silence is the best response to a fool...
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.
strong thinking ivy
That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow But thinking of a wreath, . . . I like such ivy; bold to leap a height 'Twas strong to climb! as good to grow on graves As twist about a thyrsus; pretty too (And that's not ill) when twisted round a comb.
men good-man may
May the good God pardon all good men.
women way praying
Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another!
dream heart destiny
Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream or grave apart.