How do I love thee? Let me count the ways./ I love thee to the depth and breadth and height / My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight / For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.


Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
My sun sets to raise again.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!
And yet they seem alive and quivering
Against ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
O earth, so full of dreary noises! / O men, with wailing in your voices! / O delvèd gold, the waile...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
All actual heroes are essential men, / And all men possible heroes...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
I worked with patience which means almost power.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world, Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul c...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
"There is no God," the foolish saith, But none, "There is no sorrow." And nature oft the cry of ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
Light tomorrow with today.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
Thank God, bless God, all ye who suffer not More grief than ye can weep for. That is well-- T...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy na...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
How he sleepeth! having drunken Weary childhood's mandragore, From his pretty eyes have sunke...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
Let no one till his death Be called unhappy. Measure not the work Until the day's out and the...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
By the way, The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull out sight,...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
There's not a crime But takes its proper change out still in crime If once rung on the counter...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
Yet here's eglantine, Here's ivy!--take them as I used to do Thy flowers, and keep them where ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, Held out in the smoke, like stars by day.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
What's the Greek name for Swine's Snout?
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
Did you think of that? Who burns his viol will not dance, I know. To cymbals, Romney.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
Italy/Is one thing, England one.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
Good aims not always make good books.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
We get no good by being ungenerous, even to a book, and calculating profits...so much help by so muc...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
A cheerful genius suits the times, / And all true poets laugh unquenchably / Like Shakespeare and th...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
I take her as God made her, and as men Must fail to unmake her, for my honoured wife.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
The world of books is still the world.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
She lived, we'll say,
A harmless life, she called a
virtuous life,
A quiet life, whi...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
OF writing many books there is no end;
And I who have written much in prose and verse
For ...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
Witch, scholar, poet, dreamer, and the rest...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
Books, books, books!
I had found the secret of a garret room
Piled high with cases in my f...
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 p...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
The devil's most devilish when respectable
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
Life treads on life, and heart on heart: We press too close in church and mart, To keep a dream or g...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
God's gifts put men's best dreams to shame.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you in the idea of you my whole life lon...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
O Life,
How oft we throw it off and think, — 'Enough,
Enough of life in so much! — her...
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING