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Quotes from Dramatis Personae — Robert Browning

1812–1889 England

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Let us cry, "All good things
Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!"

Dramatis Personae (1864)

Time's wheel runs back or stops: Potter and clay endure.

Dramatis Personae (1864)

Mine be some figured flame which blends, transcends them all!

Dramatis Personae (1864)

Rather I prize the doubt
Low kinds exist without,
Finished and finite clods, untroubled by a spark.

Dramatis Personae (1864)

Look not thou down but up!
To uses of a cup.

Dramatis Personae (1864)

Be there, for once and all,
Severed great minds from small,
Announced to each his station in the Past!

Dramatis Personae (1864)

Thou, heaven's consummate cup, what needst thou with earth's wheel?
But I need, now as then,
Thee, God, who mouldest men.

Dramatis Personae (1864)

Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made:
Our times are in his hand
Who saith, "A whole I planned,
Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!"

Dramatis Personae (1864)

Fancies that broke through language and escaped;
All I could never be,
All, men ignored in me,
This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.

Dramatis Personae (1864)

Was I, the world arraigned,
Were they, my soul disdained,
Right? Let age speak the truth and give us peace at last!

Dramatis Personae (1864)

Fool! All that is, at all,
Lasts ever, past recall;
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure:
What entered into thee,
That was, is, and shall be:
Time's wheel runs back or stops: Potter and clay endure.

Dramatis Personae (1864)

All instincts immature,
All purposes unsure,
That weighed not as his work, yet swelled the man's amount:
Thoughts hardly to be packed
Into a narrow act,
Fancies that broke through language and escaped;
All I could never be,
All, men ignored in me,
This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.

Dramatis Personae (1864)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Browning (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.