The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart
Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth.
Robert Browning Quotes
1812–1889 England
Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
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- Poets
Also known as: Browning, Robert
190 quotes
Let us cry, "All good things
Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!"
Dramatis Personae (1864)
Inscribe all human effort with one word,
Artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
The Ring and the Book (1868)
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?
Men and Women (1855)
God is the perfect poet,
Who in his person acts his own creations.
Paracelsus (1835)
The Ring and the Book (1868)
Colombe's Birthday (1844)
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Love, hope, fear, faith — these make humanity;
These are its sign and note and character.
Paracelsus (1835)
Never the time and the place
And the loved one all together!
Never the Time and the Place (1883)
I judge people by what they might be,—not are, nor will be.
A Soul's Tragedy (1846)
In the great right of an excessive wrong.
The Ring and the Book (1868)
If you get simple beauty and naught else,
You get about the best thing God invents.
Men and Women (1855)
The Ring and the Book (1868)
There's a woman like a dewdrop, she's so purer than the purest.
Bells and Pomegranates No. V: A Blot in the 'Scutcheon (1843)
Men and Women (1855)
O world as God has made it! All is beauty.
I think, am sure, a brother's love exceeds
All the world's loves in its unworldliness.
The Ring and the Book (1868)
Womanliness means only motherhood;
All love begins and ends there.
The Inn Album (1875)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Browning (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.