It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningThe flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, held out in the smoke, like stars by day.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningWhen the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningGod 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 BrowningThe least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningWe overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningThe critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningWill that light come again, As now these tears come...falling hot and real!
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningDefinition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningIt is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think - and it is not at all monstrous in me to say that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningThe soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak,And placed it by thee on a golden throne,-- And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!)Is by thee only, whom I love alone.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningNo man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningThere, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningWhat is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningThe charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningYes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningHappy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest!
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningWe all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a theory, risked a cause; Good kings, who disemboweled for a tax; Good Popes, who brought all good to jeopardy; Good Christians, who sat still in easy-chairs; And damned the general world for standing up. Now, may the good God pardon all good men!
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningGaze up at the stars knowing that I see the same sky and wish the same sweet dreams.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningAnd each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningBut since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning