Robert Browning Quotes

• I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three.

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• Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles. And ate the cheeses out of the vats.

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• Hamelin Town’s in Brunswick, By famous Hanover city; The river Weser, deep and wide, Washes its wall on the southern side; A pleasanter spot you never spied.

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• What’s become of Waring Since he gave us all the slip?

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• The moth’s kiss, first ! Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure, this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed Its petals up.

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• My scrofulous French novel On grey paper with blunt type!

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• There’s a great text in Galatians, Once you trip on it, entails Twenty-nine distinct damnations, One sure, if another fails.

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• Like a god going thro ’ his world there stands One mountain, for a moment in the dusk, Whole brotherhoods of cedars on its brow.

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• The year’s at the spring, And days at the morn; Morning’s at seven; The hill-side’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.

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• God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.

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• Love is the energy of life.

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• Less is more.

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• As is your sort of mind,
  So is your sort of search:
  You will find what you desire.

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• You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.

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• White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life’s business being just the terrible choice.

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• What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?

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• The moment eternal – just that and no more – When ecstasy’s utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!

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• The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

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

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• Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.

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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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