Robert Browning Quotes

Be sure that God
Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart.

That we devote ourselves to God, is seen
In living just as though no God there were.

Autumn wins you best by this its mute </br>Appeal to sympathy for its decay.

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.

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!

All the breath and the bloom of the year in the bag of one bee: All the wonder and wealth of the mine in the heart of one gem: In the core of one pearl all the shade and the shine of the sea: Breath and bloom, shade and shine, — wonder, wealth, and — how far above them —

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Never the time and the place And the loved one all together!

I find earth not gray but rosy; Heaven not grim but fair of hue. Do I stoop? I pluck a posy; Do I stand and stare? All's blue.

Have you found your life distasteful? My life did and does smack sweet. Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? Mine I save and hold complete. Do your joys with age diminish? When mine fail me, I'll complain. Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.

Womanliness means only motherhood; All love begins and ends there.

Who hears music feels his solitude Peopled at once.

We loved, sir — used to meet: How sad and bad and mad it was — But then, how it was sweet!

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?