Robert Browning Quotes

When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.

The rain set early in tonight,
The sullen wind was soon awake,
It tore the elm-tops down for spite,
And did its best to vex the lake:
I listened with heart fit to break.
When glided in Porphyria; straight
She shut the cold out and the storm,
And kneeled and made the cheerless grate
Blaze up and all the cottage warm;

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character

God is the perfect poet.

On a day like today I am stung by the splendor of a sudden thought.

What's the earth
With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?

Without love, our earth is a tomb

Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.

"Open my heart and you will see
Graved inside of it, "Italy"."

Life In Love

Escape me?
Never — -
Beloved!
While I am I, and you are you,
So long as the world contains us both,
Me the loving and you the loth
While the one eludes, must the other pursue.
My life is a fault at last, I fear:
It seems too much like a fate, indeed!
Though I do my best I shall scarce succeed.
But what if I fail of my purpose here?
It is but to keep the nerves at strain,
To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall,
And, baffled, get up and begin again, — -
So the chace takes up one's life ' that's all.
While, look but once from your farthest bound
At me so deep in the dust and dark,
No sooner the old hope goes to ground
Than a new one, straight to the self-same mark,
I shape me — -
Ever
Removed!

In this world, who can do a thing, will not;
And who would do it, cannot, I perceive:
Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power — And thus we half-men struggle.

The good stars met in your horoscope,
Made you of spirit and fire and dew.

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.

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing god invents

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew