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What 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 Browning
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Age: 55 †
Born: 1806
Born: March 6
Died: 1861
Died: June 30
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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
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We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake.
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You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter?
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But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave.
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The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars.
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