Robert Browning Quotes

• You, for example, clever to a fault, The rough and ready man who write apace, Read somewhat seldomer, think perhaps even less.

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• All we have gained then by our unbelief Is a life of doubt diversified by faith, For one of faith diversified by doubt : We called the chess-board white,—we call it black.

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• Just when we are safest, there’s a sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, some one’s death, A chorus-ending from Euripides,— And that’s enough for fifty hopes and fears As old and new at once as Nature’s self, To rap and knock and enter in our soul. Take hands and dance there, a fantastic ring, Round the ancient idol, on his base again,— The grand Perhaps.

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• And find a poor devil has ended his cares At the foot of your rotten-runged rat-riddled stairs? Do I carry the moon in my pocket ?

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• It was roses, roses, all the way.

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• I never saw a brute I hated so; He must be wicked to deserve such pain.

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• As for the grass, it grew as scant as hair in leprosy—thin dried blades pricked the mud which underneath looked kneaded up with blood. One stiff blind horse, his every bone a-stare, stood stupefied.

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• ’Tis the Last Judgement’s fire must cure this place, Calcine its clods and set my prisoners free.

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• Dear, dead woman, with such hair, too—what’s become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms? I feel chilly and grown old.

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• Hark—the dominant’s persistence till it must be answered to!

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• This world’s no blot for us Nor blank; it means intensely, and means good: To find its meaning is my meat and drink.

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• Where the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles, Miles and miles.

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• In the natural fog of the good man’s mind.

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• There may be heaven; there must be hell.

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• A tap at the pane, the quick sharp scratch And blue spurt of a lighted match, And a voice less loud, through its joys and fears, Than the two hearts beating each to each!

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• And then how I shall lie through centuries, And hear the blessed mutter of the mass, And see God made and eaten all day long, And feel the steady candle-flame, and taste Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!

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• ‘Here and here did England help me: how can I help England?’—say.

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• That’s the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture!

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• Oh, to be in England Now that April’s there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England—now!

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• Never glad confident morning again!

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Robert Browning (128)

Birth:	7th May, 1812
Death:	12th March, 1890
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Poet

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Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.

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