Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browningwas one of the most prominent English poets of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth6 March 1806
heart ambition care
The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation.
people too-much hospitality
It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure ...
money thinking being-free
And is it not the chief good of money, the being free from the need of thinking of it?
poetry humanity
We can't separate our humanity from our poetry ...
soul gregarious
Souls are gregarious in a sense, but no soul touches another, as a general rule.
truth pain soul
truth outlives pain, as the soul does life.
thinking weakness
I begin to think that none are so bold as the timid, when they are fairly roused.
garden eden apples
It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden.
silence fool cool-status
Silence is the best response to a fool...
women way praying
Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another!
work littles
Let us be content to work To do the things we can, and not presume To fret because it's little.
strong blessed dare
Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest!
men soul and-love
The man, most man, Works best for men, and, if most men indeed, He gets his manhood plainest from his soul: While, obviously, this stringent soul itself Obeys our old rules of development; The Spirit ever witnessing in ours, And Love, the soul of soul, within the soul, Evolving it sublimely.
art women mean
A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, in science, but she fears to let the perfect action take her part and rest there: she must prove what she can do before she does it, -- prate of woman's rights, of woman's mission, woman's function, till the men (who are prating, too, on their side) cry, A woman's function plainly is... to talk. Poor souls, they are very reasonably vexed!