E. B. Browning Quotes
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you
Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.
You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
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.
A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.
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.
No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.
She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows.
Think, in mounting higher, the angels would press on us, and aspire to drop some golden orb of perfect song into our deep, dear silence.
People who get to the top of any organisation are generally dysfunctional human beings who are overachieving, overcompensating or overbearing.
The little cares that fretted me, I lost them yesterday Among the fields above the sea, Among the winds at play.
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
He's just, your cousin, ay, abhorrently, He'd wash his hands in blood, to keep them clean.
Hand Grasps at hand, eye lights eye in good friendship, And great hearts expand And grow one in the sense of this world's life.
How strange now, looks the life he makes us lead; So free we seem, so fettered fast we are!
There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.
Or from Browning some "Pomegranate," which if cut deep down the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity.
To do good things in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.
Success in marriage is more than finding the right person: it is being the right person.
Nosegays! leave them for the waking, Throw them earthward where they grew Dim are such, beside the breaking Amaranths he looks unto. Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do.
