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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.
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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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.
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Or from Browning some Pomegranate, which if cut deep down the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity.
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I heard an angel speak last night/And he said, Write!
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There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud.
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You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter?
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Much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself.
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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?
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Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?
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When God helps all the workers for His world, The singers shall have help of Him, not last.
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And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.
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