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Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!

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Robert Browning
Age: 77 †
Born: 1812
Born: May 7
Died: 1889
Died: December 12
Dramaturgy
Playwright
Poet
Writer
London
England
Robert Barrett Browning
Browning
Haunting
Incomplete
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Effort
Word
Human
Humans
Inscribe
Artistry

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My sun sets to rise again.
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Most progress is most failure.
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O never star Was lost here We all aspire to heaven and there is heaven Above us. If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud, It is but for a time I press God's lamp Close to my breast its splendor soon or late Will pierce the gloom. I shall emerge some day.
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But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.
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Shakespeare was of us, Milton was of us, Burns, Shelley, were with us. They watch from their graves!
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Stand still, true poet that you are! I know you let me try and draw you. Some night you'll fail us: when afar You rise, remember one man saw you, Knew you, and named a star!
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It 's wiser being good than bad It 's safer being meek than fierce It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched That after Last returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched.
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You never know what life means till you die even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.
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Oh never star Was lost here but it rose afar.
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Never brag, never bluster, never blush.
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Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy.
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Over my head his arm he flung, Against the world.
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For I say this is death and the sole death,- When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest.
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The peerless cup afloat Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph Swims bearing high above her head.
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If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.
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O woman-country! wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth's male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead.
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Day! Faster and more fast. O'er night's brim, day boils at last.
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Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbeloving Unless you can die when the dream is past- Oh, never call it loving!
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All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower.
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God smiles as He has always smiled Ere suns and moons could wax and wane, Ere stars were thundergirt, or piled The Heavens, God thought on me His child Ordained a life for me, arrayed Its circumstances, every one To the minutest ay, God said This head this hand should rest upon Thus, ere He fashioned star or sun.
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