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
fell lied rough truth
Lied is a rough phrase; say he fell from truth
center consists entry escape fullness imprisoned lies light opening outward rather rise splendor supposed takes truth whatever within
Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.
hurt truth
Truth never hurt the teller.
truth glasses done
Truth that peeps Over the glass's edge when dinner's done.
truth truth-is fullness
Truth is within ourselves. There is an inmost center in us all, where the truth abides in fullness.
truth truth-is
Truth is within ourselves.
art truth mouths
Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.
truth truth-is strikes
Truth is truth howe'er it strike.
hurt truth
Truth never hurts the teller.
art truth mouths
It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.
begins fight within worth
When a man's fight begins within himself, he is worth something
lamp sin
And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost/ Is - the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin.
blot insult lost record sorrow soul task wrong
Blot out his name, then, record one lost soul more, / One task more declined, one more footpath untrod, / One more devil's-triumph and sorrow for angels, / One wrong more to man, one more insult to God!
sort
As is your sort of mind, so is your sort of search: You'll find what you desire.