403 Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

[O]ut of books / He taught me all the ignorance of men, / And how God laughs in heaven when any man / Says 'Here I'm learned; this, I understand; / In that, I am never caught at fault or doubt.

Enough! we're tired, my heart and I.We sit beside the headstone thus,And wish that name were carved for us.The moss reprints more tenderlyThe hard types of the mason's knife,As Heaven's sweet life renews earth's lifeWith which we're tired, my heart and I ....In this abundant earth no doubtIs little room for things worn out:Disdain them, break them, throw them by!And if before the days grew roughWe once were loved, used, - well enough,I think, we've fared, my heart and I.

Yes," I answered you last night;"No," this morning, sir, I say.Colours seen by candlelightWill not look the same by day.

And yet, because I love thee, I obtainFrom that same love this vindicating grace,To live on still in love, and yet in vain

Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.

My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.

It is rather whenWe gloriously forget ourselves, and plungeSoul-forward, headlong, into a book’s profound,Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth—’Tis then we get the right good from a book.

Our Euripides the human,With his droppings of warm tears,and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres.

You have touched me more profoundly than I thought even you could have touched me - my heart was full when you came here today. Henceforward I am yours for everything.