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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 man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul.
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Behold me! I am worthy Of thy loving, for I love thee!
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Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.
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The man, most man, Works best for men, and, if most men indeed, He gets his manhood plainest from his soul: While, obviously, this stringent soul itself Obeys our old rules of development The Spirit ever witnessing in ours, And Love, the soul of soul, within the soul, Evolving it sublimely.
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A man may love a woman perfectly, and yet by no means ignorantly maintain a thousand women have not larger eyes. Enough that she alone has looked at him with eyes that, large or small, have won his soul.
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And I must bear What is ordained with patience, being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture.
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My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.
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truth outlives pain, as the soul does life.
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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 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.
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If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.
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Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!
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Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure Their blossoms from their roots, accessible Alone to heavenly dews that drop not fewer Growing straight out of man's reach, on the hill. God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.
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Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.
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I would confide to you perhaps my secret profession of faith - which is ... which is ... that let us say and do what we please and can ... there is a natural inferiority of mind in women - of the intellect ... not by any means, of the moral nature - and that the history of Art and of genius testifies to this fact openly.
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The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!
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