Robert Browning
Robert Browning
Robert Browningwas an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. His poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings, and challenging vocabulary and syntax...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth7 May 1812
men missing mind
That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it: This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundred's soon hit: This high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit. That, has the world here-should he need the next, Let the world mind him! This, throws himself on God, and unperplext Seeking shall find Him.
poetry difficult poetry-is
All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow.
justice coats sticks
Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.
wall believe light
Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise From outward things, whate'er you may believe. There is an inmost centre in us all, Where truth abides in fulness; and around, Wall upon wall, the gross flesh hems it in, This perfect, clear perception-which is truth. A baffling and perverting carnal mesh Binds it, and makes all error: and to know Rather consists in opening out a way Whence the imprisoned splendour may escape, Than in effecting entry for a light Supposed to be without.
failure progress
Most progress is most failure.
winning heaven may
Lose who may-I still can say, Those who win heaven, blest are they!
hurt truth
Truth never hurt the teller.
truth glasses done
Truth that peeps Over the glass's edge when dinner's done.
happiness way seems
The best way to excape his ire Is, not to seem too happy.
remakes made absolutes
My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.
love way stoops
Such ever was love's way: to rise, it stoops.
life heart men
How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy!
mind height shade
Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.
inspirational ignorance purity-and-innocence
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.