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Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.
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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Durham
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Elizaveta Barrett Brauning
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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
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Love that endures, from life that disappears!
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An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
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The soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak,And placed it by thee on a golden throne,-- And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!)Is by thee only, whom I love alone.
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And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain
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There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
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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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What frightens me is that men are content with what is not life at all.
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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.
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I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form.
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I would not be a rose upon the wall A queen might stop at, near the palace-door, To say to a courtier, Pluck that rose for me, It's prettier than the rest. O Romney Leigh! I'd rather far be trodden by his foot, Than lie in a great queen's bosom.
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I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm.
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No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
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When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . .
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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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Who so loves believes the impossible.
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The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.
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He lives most life whoever breathes most air.
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Get work, get work Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get.
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