39 quotes
Whoever lives true life, will love true love.
Aurora Leigh (1856)
But I love you, sir:
And when a woman says she loves a man,
The man must hear her, though he love her not.
Aurora Leigh (1856)
I worked with patience which means almost power.
Aurora Leigh (1856)
Man, the two-fold creature, apprehends
The two-fold manner, in and outwardly,
And nothing in the world comes single to him.
Aurora Leigh (1857)
In this bad, twisted, topsy-turvy world,
Where all the heaviest wrongs get uppermost.
Aurora Leigh (1856)
There's not a crime
But takes its proper change out still in crime
If once rung on the counter of this world.
Aurora Leigh (1856)
Get leave to work
In this world,—'tis the best you get at all.
Aurora Leigh (1856)
Dreams of doing good
For good-for-nothing people.
Aurora Leigh (1857)
Those tall flowering-reeds which stand,
In Arno like a sheaf of sceptres, left
By some remote dynasty of dead gods.
Aurora Leigh (1856)
Hope, he called, belief
In God, — work, worship * * * therefore let us pray!
Aurora Leigh (1856)
For poets (bear the word)
Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.
Aurora Leigh (1856)
Free men freely work:
Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease.
Aurora Leigh (1856)
Walls must get the weather stain
Before they grow the ivy.
Aurora Leigh (1856)
The devil’s most devilish when respectable.
Aurora Leigh (1857)
The beautiful seems right
By force of Beauty, and the feeble wrong
Because of weakness.
Aurora Leigh (1857)
Most illogical
Irrational nature of our womanhood,
That blushes one way, feels another way,
And prays, perhaps, another!
Aurora Leigh (1856)
Near all the birds,
Will sing at dawn,—and yet we do not take
The chaffering swallow for the holy lark.
Aurora Leigh (1857)
Measure not the work
Until the day's out and the labour done,
Then bring your gauges.
Aurora Leigh (1857)
"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.
Aurora Leigh (1856)
Since when was genius found respectable?
Aurora Leigh (1857)