Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Best be yourself imperial plain and true!

A womans always younger than a man of equal years.

Until they are of the age to use the brain.

Light tomorrow with today!

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

The years at the Spring And days at the morn Mornings at seven The hillsides dew-pearled The larks on the wing The snails on the thorn: Gods in his Heaven - Alls right with the world!

Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.

And trade is art, and arts philosophy,In Paris.

Gods gifts put mans best dreams to shame.

Who so loves believes the impossible.

If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for loves sake only.

Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

For tis not in mere death that men die most.

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.

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

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

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

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

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

“I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.”