Who so loves believes the impossible. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Who so loves believes the impossible.

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Profession: Poet
Nationality: British

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My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.

The world of books is still the world.

World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you in the idea of you my whole life long.

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.

Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.

Since when was genius found respectable?

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

I take her as God made her, and as men Must fail to unmake her, for my honoured wife.

Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.

I begin to think that none are so bold as the timid, when they are fairly roused.

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