Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes & Sayings

“My sun sets to rise again.”

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

“If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only.”

“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?”

“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.”

“An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.”

“For tis not in mere death that men die most.”

“What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?”

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

“Who so loves believes the impossible.”