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
tone speak
I cannot speak in happy tones.
angel world mines
New angel mine, unhoped for in the world!
world pitcher wells
With what cracked pitchers go we to deep wells In this world!
Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!
book men higher
... books are men of higher stature ...
writing seems courses
Like to write? Of course, of course I do. I seem to live while I write - it is life, for me.
art mean secret
I would confide to you perhaps my secret profession of faith - which is ... which is ... that let us say and do what we please and can ... there is a natural inferiority of mind in women - of the intellect ... not by any means, of the moral nature - and that the history of Art and of genius testifies to this fact openly.
tyrants use injustice
The tyrant should take heed to what he doth, Since every victim-carrion turns to use, And drives a chariot, like a god made wroth, Against each piled injustice.
cheerful possibility faculty
much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself ...
criticism together foolishness
Foolishness and criticism are so apt, do so naturally go together!
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 ...