Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
An ignorance of means may minister To greatness, but an ignorance of aims Make it impossible to be great at all.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile . . . her look . . . her way Of speaking gently . . . for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day- For these things in themselves, Beloved, may be changed, or change for thee- and love so wrought, May be unwrought so.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
