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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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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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Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.
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Nor myrtle--which means chiefly love: and love Is something awful which one dare not touch So early o' mornings.
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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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Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.
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Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.
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Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my 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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World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane but is not the fruit of pain.
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