Top 180 Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Light tomorrow with today!”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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2. “Earth’s crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

3. “I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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4. “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

5. “I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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6. “I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

7. “Silence is the best response to a fool...”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

8. “If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love’s sake only.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

9. “No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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10. “You’re something between a dream and a miracle.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

11. “Earth’s crammed with Heaven.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

12. “True knowledge comes only through suffering.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

13. “It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

14. “Earth is crammed with heaven, and every common bush is afire with God. And only those who see take off their shoes; the rest sit around and pluck blackberries.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

15. “He lives most life whoever breathes most air.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

16. “If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

17. “God Himself is the best Poet, And the Real is His song.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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18. “I love you for the part of me that you bring out.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

19. “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

20. “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

21. “Never say No when the world says Aye.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

22. “Measure not the work until the day’s out and the labor done.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

23. “The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings; and lo! they are flown.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

24. “Who so loves believes the impossible.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

25. “Gaze up at the stars knowing that I see the same sky and wish the same sweet dreams.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

26. “And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

27. “The world’s male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

28. “God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

29. “What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

30. “Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

31. “Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love. Yet love me – wilt thou? Open thine heart wide, And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

32. “Happy 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 Browning

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33. “World’s use is cold, world’s love is vain, world’s cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

34. “Whoever lives true life, will love true love.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

35. “The little cares that fretted me, I lost them yesterday Among the fields above the sea, Among the winds at play.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

36. “Love doesn’t make the world go round, Love is what makes the ride worthwhile!”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

37. “And I smiled to think God’s greatness flowed around our incompleteness; Round our restlessness, His rest.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

38. “The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation to the inward sense Of beauty apprehended from without, I still call love.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

39. “The devil’s most devilish when respectable.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

40. “Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of a man. The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain – For the reed that grows never more again As a reed with the reeds of the river.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

41. “Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

42. “So mothers have God’s license to be missed.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

43. “I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god’s throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

44. “Or from Browning some “Pomegranate,” which if cut deep down the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

45. “God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

46. “Witch, scholar, poet, dreamer, and the rest...”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

47. “There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

48. “Books succeed; and lives fail.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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49. “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

50. “And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit’s melancholy And eternity’s despair; And they heard the words it said,- “Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!””

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning