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Robert Browning (Writer)

Thy rare gold ring of verse (the poet praised) Linking our England to his Italy.
— Robert Browning poet
The sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.
— Robert Browning sea
And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again.
— Robert Browning books
Just my vengeance complete, The man sprang to his feet, Stood erect, caught at God's skirts, and prayed! So, I was afraid!
— Robert Browning man
Oh never star Was lost here but it rose afar.
— Robert Browning lost
When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?
— Robert Browning
The sin I impute to each frustrute ghost Is—the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say.
— Robert Browning sin
Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.
— Robert Browning men
Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.
— Robert Browning
We shall march prospering,—not thro' his presence; Songs may inspirit us,—not from his lyre; Deeds will be done,—while he boasts his quiescence, Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire.
— Robert Browning spirit
They are perfect; how else?—they shall never change: We are faulty; why not?—we have time in store.
— Robert Browning time
What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practise in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.
— Robert Browning art
O woman-country! wooed not wed, Loved all the more by earth's male-lands, Laid to their hearts instead.
— Robert Browning art
That great brow And the spirit-small hand propping it.
— Robert Browning spirit
If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third; One near one is too far.
— Robert Browning live
Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.
— Robert Browning art
Round and round, like a dance of snow In a dazzling drift, as its guardians, go Floating the women faded for ages, Sculptured in stone on the poet's pages.
— Robert Browning women
How he lies in his rights of a man! Death has done all death can. And absorbed in the new life he leads, He recks not, he heeds Nor his wrong nor my vengeance; both strike On his senses alike, And are lost in the solemn and strange Surprise of the change.
— Robert Browning life
Ah, did you once see Shelley plain, And did he stop and speak to you, And did you speak to him again? How strange it seems, and new!
— Robert Browning strange
He who did well in war just earns the right To begin doing well in peace.
— Robert Browning war
And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift, Is quick and transient,—comes, and lo! is gone, While Northern thought is slow and durable.
— Robert Browning thought
A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one; And those who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all.
— Robert Browning life
Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due? No forcing earth teach heaven's employ?
— Robert Browning time
There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with for evil so much good more; On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.
— Robert Browning art
Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!
— Robert Browning art
What I aspired to be, And was not, comforts me.
— Robert Browning comfort
How sad and bad and mad it was! But then, how it was sweet!
— Robert Browning sad
So may a glory from defect arise.
— Robert Browning
This could but have happened once,— And we missed it, lost it forever.
— Robert Browning lost
Fear death?—to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face. . . . . . . . No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers, The heroes of old; Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears
— Robert Browning life
Of pain, darkness, and cold.
— Robert Browning pain
It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce; It's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That after Last returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched; That what began best can't end worst, Nor what God blessed once prove accurst.
— Robert Browning hope
But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?
— Robert Browning life
Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed,— As, God be thanked! I do not.
— Robert Browning god
"With this same key Shakespeare unlocked his heart" once more! Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare he!
— Robert Browning art
God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach
— Robert Browning justice
Delinquency.
— Robert Browning
Good, to forgive; Best, to forget! Living, we fret; Dying, we live.
— Robert Browning live
Can we love but on condition that the thing we love must die?
— Robert Browning love
Sky—what a scowl of cloud Till, near and far, Ray on ray split the shroud: Splendid, a star!
— Robert Browning end
Wanting is—what? Summer redundant, Blueness abundant, Where is the blot?
— Robert Browning summer
But little do or can the best of us: That little is achieved through Liberty.
— Robert Browning achieve
There is no truer truth obtainable By Man than comes of music.
— Robert Browning truth
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.
— Robert Browning love
Every one soon or late comes round by Rome.
— Robert Browning
Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.
— Robert Browning hope
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
— Robert Browning music
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
— Robert Browning success
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
— Robert Browning man
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
— Robert Browning wit
Love is energy of life.
— Robert Browning life
But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.
— Robert Browning purpose
Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.
— Robert Browning mind
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
— Robert Browning art
The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.
— Robert Browning strength
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
— Robert Browning beauty
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
— Robert Browning time
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
— Robert Browning men
All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.
— Robert Browning
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
— Robert Browning sin
Oh, to be in England now that April's there.
— Robert Browning
So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.
— Robert Browning love
Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.
— Robert Browning man
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
— Robert Browning path
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
— Robert Browning learn
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
— Robert Browning
The best is yet to be.
— Robert Browning best
When the fight begins within himself, a mans worth something.
— Robert Browning self
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; lifes business being just the terrible choice.
— Robert Browning life

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