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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Also known as: Browning, Robert
190 quotes
When is man strong until he feels alone?
God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance,
Rests never on the track until it reach
Delinquency.
Just for a handful of silver he left us,
Just for a riband to stick in his coat.
Have you found your life distasteful?
My life did and does smack sweet.
When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?
A ring without a posy, and that ring mine?
Air, air, fresh life-blood, thin and searching air,
The clear, dear breath of God that loveth us.
But how carve way i' the life that lies before,
If bent on groaning ever for the past?
Was never evening yet
But seemed far beautifuller than its day.
'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
I count life just a stuff
To try the soul's strength on.
Time's wheel runs back or stops: Potter and clay endure.
Sculptured in stone on the poet's pages.
Mine be some figured flame which blends, transcends them all!
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Browning (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.