Robert Browning quotes

Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright, renowned for his mastery of dramatic monologue and psychological portraiture. His works, including "The Ring and the Book" and "My Last Duchess," greatly influenced Victorian poetry. He is celebrated for his innovative use of language and insight into the human mind. Here are 271 of his quotes:

When a man's fight begins within himself, he is worth something. (Robert Browning)
God is the perfect poet. View quote
Robert Browning
Take away love, and our earth is a tomb! View quote
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Love is energy of life. View quote
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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? View quote
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A minute's success pays the failure of years. View quote
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Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph? View quote
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Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. View quote
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Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay. View quote
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Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not. View quote
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The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet! (Robert Browning)
God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency. View quote
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Ignorance is not innocence but sin. View quote
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Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. View quote
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If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents. View quote
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Never the time and the place and the loved one all together! View quote
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What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop? View quote
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I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God. View quote
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White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice. View quote
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Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be. View quote
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Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn. (Robert Browning)
It is the glory and the good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to minds like mine at least. View quote
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But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past? View quote
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Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once. View quote
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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake. View quote
Robert Browning

Robert Browning

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Occupation: English Poet
Born: May 7, 1812
Died: December 12, 1889
Quotes count: 271
Wikipedia: Robert Browning

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