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It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure.
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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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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My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.
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How joyously the young sea-mew Lay dreaming on the waters blue, Whereon our little bark had thrown A little shade, the only one But shadows ever man pursue.
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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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There's nothing great Nor small, has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell.
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I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.
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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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I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
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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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Anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not so in chemistry and mathematics. Nor is it so, I believe, in whist and the polka. But then these are more serious things.
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Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal.
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Whatever's lost, it first was won.
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We can't separate our humanity from our poetry.
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The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.
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Since when was genius found respectable?
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He lives most life whoever breathes most air.
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Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, Now tell me if that any is. For gift or grace, surpassing this-- He giveth His beloved sleep.
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If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.
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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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Light tomorrow with today!
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