403 Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.

I would build a cloudy House For my thoughts to live in; When for earth too fancy-loose And too low for Heaven! Hush! I talk my dream aloud - I build it bright to see, - I build it on the moonlit cloud, To which I looked with thee.

O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein, That, by the grief of One, came all our good.

What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.

A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

Capacity for joy Admits temptation.

He said true things, but called them by wrong names.

I would not be a rose upon the wall A queen might stop at, near the palace-door, To say to a courtier, "Pluck that rose for me, It's prettier than the rest." O Romney Leigh! I'd rather far be trodden by his foot, Than lie in a great queen's bosom.

Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.