Elizabeth Barrett Browning quotes

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an influential English poet, renowned for her passionate and emotional verse. Her collection "Sonnets from the Portuguese" is celebrated for its lyrical beauty and heartfelt expressions of love. She inspired generations of writers and became a prominent voice in Victorian literature. Here are 144 of her quotes:

Who so loves believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

What I do, and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Since when was genius found respectable?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

My sun sets to raise again.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Or from Browning some 'Pomegranate,' which if cut deep down the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the painted scene, Boards, actors, prompters, gaslight, and costume, And take for a worthier stage the soul itself, Its shifting fancies and celestial lights, With all its grand orchestral silences To keep the pauses of its rhythmic sounds.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A woman is always younger than a man at equal years.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning