You were made perfectly to be loved – and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My sun sets to rise again.
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love’s sake only.
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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
But the child’s sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Light tomorrow with today!
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Who so loves believes the impossible.
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Smiles, tears, of all my life! – and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame.
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
For tis not in mere death that men die most.
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning
