| 101 Famous Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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“Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And life is perfected by Death.”
Suffering Quotes Source: A Vision of Poets--Conclusion
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“And that dismal cry rose slowly
And sank slowly through the air,
Full of spirit's melancholy
And eternity's despair!
And they heart the words it said--
Pan is dead! great Pan is dead!
Pan, Pan is dead!”
Gods Quotes Source: The Dead Pan
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“Eyes of gentianellas azure,
Staring, winking at the skies.”
Eyes Quotes Source: Hector in the Garden
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“"Yes," I answered you last night;
"No," this morning, sir, I say:
Colors seen by candle-light
Will not look the same by day.”
Wooing Quotes Source: The Lady's "Yes"
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“This guelder rose, at far too slight a beck
Of the wind, will toss about her flower-apples.”
Roses Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. II)
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“'Twas a yellow rose,
By that south window of the little house,
My cousin Romney gathered with his hand
On all my birthdays, for me. save the last;
And then I shook the tree too rough, too rough,
For roses to stay after.”
Roses Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. VI)
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“O rose, who dares to name thee?
No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet,
But pale, and hard, and dry, as stubblewheat,--
Kept seven years in a drawer, thy titles shame thee.”
Roses Quotes Source: A Dead Rose
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“Red as a rose of Harpocrate.”
Roses Quotes Source: Isabel's Child
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“And thus, what can we do,
Poor rose and poet too,
Who both antedate our mission
In an unprepared season?”
Roses Quotes Source: A Lay of the Early Rose
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“"For if I wait," said she,
"Till time for roses be,--
For the moss-rose and the musk-rose,
Maiden-blush and royal-dusk rose,--
"What glory then for me
In such a company?--
Roses plenty, roses plenty
And one nightingale for twenty?"”
Roses Quotes Source: A Lay of the Early Rose
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“You smell a rose through a fence:
If two should smell it, what matter?”
Roses Quotes Source: Lord Walter's Wife
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“A white rosebud for a guerdon.”
Roses Quotes Source: Romance of the Swan's Nest
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“God keeps a niche
In Heaven, to hold our idols; and albeit
He brake them to our faces, and denied
That our close kisses should impair their white,--
I know we shall behold them raised, complete,
The dust swept from their beauty, glorified,
New Memnons singing in the great God-light.”
Heaven Quotes Source: Sonnet--Futurity with the Departed
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“What is art
But life upon the larger scale, the higher,
When, graduating up in a spiral line
Of still expanding and ascending gyres,
It pushed toward the intense significance
Of all things, hungry for the Infinite?
Art's life--and where we live, we suffer and toil.”
Progress Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. IV, l. 1,150)
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“In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world,
Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost.”
World Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. V, l. 981)
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“He likes the poor things of the world the best,
I would not, therefore, if I could be rich.
It pleases him t stoop for buttercups.”
Buttercups Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. IV)
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“There, Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb
The crowns o' the world. Oh, eyes sublime
With tears and laughter for all time.”
Shakespeare Quotes Source: A Vision of Poets
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“The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise,
I barter for curl upon that mart.”
Business Quotes Source: Sonnets from the Portuguese (XIX)
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“"There's nothing great
Nor small," has said a poet of our day,
Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve
And not be thrown out by the matin's bell.”
Poets Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. VII), probably referring to Emerson's "Epigram to History", "There is no great and
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“O brave poets, keep back nothing;
Nor mix falsehood with the whole!
Look up Godward! speak the truth in
Worthy song from earnest soul!
Hold, in high poetic duty,
Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.”
Poets Quotes Source: Dead Pan (st. 39)
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“God's prophets of the Beautiful,
These Poets were.”
Poets Quotes Source: Vision of Poets (l. 161)
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“And lilies are still lilies, pulled
By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.”
Flowers Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. III)
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“Brazen helm of daffodillies,
With a glitter toward the light.
Purple violets for the mouth,
Breathing perfumes west and south;
And a sword of flashing lilies,
Holden ready for the fight.”
Flowers Quotes Source: Hector in the Garden
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“Ah, ah, Cytherea! Adonis is dead.
She wept tear after tear, with the blood which was shed,--
And both turned into flowers for the earth's garden-close;
Her tears, to the wind-flower,--his blood, to the rose.”
Flowers Quotes Source: Lament for Adonis (st. 6)
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“The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks,
Held out in the smoke, like stars by day.”
Flowers Quotes Source: The Soul's Travelling
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