Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

• Whoso loves, believes the impossible.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Faith

• Earth’s crammed with heaven,
  And every common bush afire with God;
  And only he who sees takes off his shoes;
  The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Heaven, Earth

• Good critics, who have stamped out poets’ hope,
  Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state,
  Good patriots, who for a theory risked a cause.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good

• God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers,
  And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,
  A gauntlet with a gift in it.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Giving

• The year’s at the Spring And day’s at the morn; Morning’s at seven; The hillside’s dew-pearled; The lark’s on the wing; The snail’s on the thorn: God’s in his Heaven – All’s right with the world!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World

• Women know
  The way to rear up children (to be just)
  They know a simple, merry, tender knack
  Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes
  And stringing pretty words that make no sense.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Topics in Mother

• Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who’s sorry for a gnat or girl?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Topics in Power

• Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Tags in Writers And Writing

• Since when was genius found respectable?

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Topics in Genius

• He who breathes deepest lives most.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Meditation

• 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 what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Topics in Love

• Light tomorrow with today!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Tags in Now, Plans

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (53)

Birth:	6th March, 1806
Death:	29th June, 1861
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Poet

About

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born in Kelloe, Durham, England. She was an English poet. Her first adult collection of poems was published in 1838 and she wrote prolifically between 1841 and 1844, producing poetry, translation and prose. She is remembered for such poems as "How Do I Love Thee?" and Aurora Leigh. In 1826, she anonymously published her collection An Essay on Mind and Other Poems.

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