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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.
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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Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it.
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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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XI I sang his name instead of song Over and over I sang his name: Backward and forward I sang it along, With my sweetest notes, it was still the same! I sang it low, that the slave-girls near Might never guess, from what they could hear, That all the song was a name.
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You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter?
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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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You believe In God, for your part?--that He who makes Can make good things from ill things, best from worst, As men plant tulips upon dunghills when They wish them finest.
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No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
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Never say No when the world says Aye.
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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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Love me sweet With all thou art Feeling, thinking, seeing Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being.
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Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest!
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For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most.
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Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!
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He lives most life whoever breathes most air.
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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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Get work, get work Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get.
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Where Christ brings His cross He brings His presence and where He is none are desolate, and there is no room for despair.
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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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