Quotes from Robert Browning

how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet

Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks.

God! Thou art love! I build my faith on that.

Outside are the storms and strangers: we — Oh, close, safe, warm sleep I and she, — I and she!

Again the Cousin's whistle! Go, my Love.

I think, am sure, a brother's love exceeds All the world's loves in its unworldliness.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.

Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

Art remains the one way possible of speaking truth.

Truth is within ourselves.

There is no truer truth obtainable by Man than comes of music

Truth that peeps Over the glass's edge when dinner's done.

Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe, all were for me, in the kiss of one girl.

Truth never hurt the teller.

The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth.

The lie was dead And damned, and truth stood up instead.

Though Rome's gross yoke Drops off, no more to be endured, Her teaching is not so obscured By errors and perversities, That no truth shines athwart the lies.

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.

All's love, yet all's law.

What a name! Was it love or praise? Speech half-asleep or song half-awake? I must learn Spanish, one of these days, Only for that slow sweet name's sake.

Ah, love, - you are my unutterable blessing.....I am in full sunshine now.

Let friend trust friends, and love demand love's like.

When I love most, love is disguised. In hate; and when hate is surprised, in love, then I hate most.

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.