Robert Browning: Trending quotes (page 6)

“Oh never star
Was lost here but it rose afar.”

“And inasmuch as feeling, the East's gift,
Is quick and transient,—comes, and lo! is gone,
While Northern thought is slow and durable.”

“O woman-country! wooed not wed,
Loved all the more by earth's male-lands,
Laid to their hearts instead.”

“Some unsuspected isle in the far seas,—
Some unsuspected isle in far-off seas.”

“Oh their Rafael of the dear Madonnas,
Oh their Dante of the dread Inferno,
Wrote one song—and in my brain I sing it;
Drew one angel—borne, see, on my bosom!”

“Rafael made a century of sonnets.”

“What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all;
Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold:”

“Oh child that didst despise thy life so much
When it seemed only thine to keep or lose,
How the fine ear felt fall the first low word
"Value life, and preserve life for My sake!"”

“A ring without a posy, and that ring mine?”

“There's a woman like a dewdrop, she's so purer than the purest.”

“They are perfect; how else?—they shall never change:
We are faulty; why not?—we have time in store.”

“I trust in Nature for the stable laws
Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant
And Autumn garner to the end of time.
I trust in God,—the right shall be the right
And other than the wrong, while he endures.
I trust in my own soul, that can perceive
The outward and the inward,—Nature's good
And God's.”

“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.”

“A book in shape but, really, pure crude fact
Secreted from man's life when hearts beat hard,
And brains, high-blooded, ticked two centuries since.
Give it me back! The thing's restorative
I'the touch and sight.”

“If two lives join, there is oft a scar.
They are one and one, with a shadowy third;
One near one is too far.”

“Strange secrets are let out by Death
Who blabs so oft the follies of this world.”

“Our aspirations are our possibilities.”

“The good stars met in your horoscope,
Made you of spirit and fire and dew.”

“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.”