Elizabeth Barrett-Browning Quotes

And trade is art, and art's philosophy,In Paris.

God's in His Heaven - All's right with the world!

Good to forgive Best to forget.

You have touched me more profoundly than I thought even you could have touched me - my heart was full when you came here today. Henceforward I am yours for everything.

The picture of helpless indolence she calls herselfsublimely helpless and impotentI had done living I thoughtWas ever life so like death before? My face was so close against the tombstones, that there seemed no room for tears.

We get no good by being ungenerous, even to a book, and calculating profits...so much help by so much reading. it is rather when we gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth--'tis then we get the right good from the book.

I am one who could have forgotten the plague, listening to Boccaccio's stories; and I am not ashamed of it.

God's gifts put men's best dreams to shame.