Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

  • Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you <span class='nobr'></span>
  • Earth's crammed with heaven... But only he who sees, takes off his shoes. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • 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. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • God's gifts put men's best dreams to shame. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • Our Euripides the human, With his droppings of warm tears, and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • I am one who could have forgotten the plague, listening to Boccaccio's stories; and I am not ashamed of it. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days grew rough We once were lov'd, us'd - well enoug... <span class='nobr'></span>
  • Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love. Yet love me-wilt thou? Open thine heart wide, And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove. <span class='nobr'></span>
  • And I breathe large at home. I drop my cloak, Unclasp my girdle, loose the band that ties My hair...now could I but unloose my soul! We are sepulchred alive in this close world, An... <span class='nobr'></span>
  • The picture of helpless indolence she calls herself sublimely helpless and impotent I had done living I thought Was ever life so like death before? My face was so close against the... <span class='nobr'></span>
Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning Love Sayings

Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.

Love, Passion

Elizabeth Barrett Browning Dreams Messages

God's gifts put men's best dreams to shame.

Dreams, Religion

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